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PORTLEDGE MANOR
Fairy Gross, Bideford, N. Devon, England

This Devonshire Manor has been the seat of the

Coffin family since Henry-the third, 1254. The manor

is now the Portledge Hotel and extends a special wel-

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The house has an interesting and a varied history. Jethro and Mary Coffin, the original owners, lived in
it 20 years, rearing eight children. In 1708, it was purchased by Nathaniel Paddock and remained in the
Paddock family ‘or over a century—until 1840, when it was sold to George Turner. Tristram Coffin, of Pough-
keepsie, who purcnased it in 1881, repaired it in 1886, and in 1897 it was first opened to the public with
Miss Ellen Clisbie Bartlett in charge, Mrs. Anna Starbuck Jenks became custodian in’ 1899, continuing until WHEN THE OLDEST HOUSE WAS LAST A FAMILY HOME—1866.
1923. In that year, the Nantucket Historical Association became the owner, and Miss Sarah L. Macy be--
came its custodian in 1925, serving until her death in 1934, Through the generosity of Winthrop Coffin, of
Boston, the house was restored in 1927-28, with the late Alfred Shurrocks and the late William Sumner
Appleton as architects. The view above shows the dismantling necessary in strengthening the big chimney.

The last family to occupy the old house was that of Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
F. Turner, whose heirs sold it to the Tristram Coffins of Poughkeepsie in
1881, It was repaired and maintained as an historical exhibit from 1897
to the present time. A complete restoration was accomplished in 1928,
It was here that Mrs. Worron wrote “Trustum and His Grandchildren.”

2. ak ee | “Mortgage Buttons.”

Jane and Burt McConnell, who
spend their summers in Nantucket,
recently became interested in the old

Island custom of placing an ivory but-
ton on the newel post of the main
stairway of a house that is no longer
burdened with a mortgage. This
“mortgage button” may be the size
t : = ae of a nickel or even a quarter; the
: eA CUIPE 1000; ; i } : oe i Bor: Hinchman house displays one that is |
1686, aes 5 - | : ke ; iE i : eis eet even larger.
: Me: Capt. McConnell searched among j
his souvenirs and came up with a!
whale’s tooth which Sir Hubert Wil-
kins brought him from the Antarctic |

twenty years ago. He sawed off a slab
of dentine a quarter of an inch thick,
shaped it into a button, and set it
Nantucket’s Oldest House, a salt box, was built in 1686. It remained under pri- into their newel post, flush with the
vate ownership until 1923, when its present owners, the Nantucket Historical op. He then turned the tooth over to
Association, purchased it, and restored and preserved it. the Hospital Thrift Shop, which is

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NATIONAL HISTORIC SHRINE — This is
the Jethro Coffin House on Nantucket, built
in 1686 and designated last month by interior
Secretary Stewart L. Udall as a national

By ARTHUR J. QUINN
Standard-Times Staff Writer

NANTUCKET — Officers of
the Nantucket Historical Associ-
ation are awaiting official U.S.
documents they must sign be-
fore a bronze plaque, identifying
the 282-year-old Jethro Coffin
homestead, the oldest house on
the island, as a national historic
landmark.

The historic site, set on the
sloped Sunset Hill, was official-
ly recognized as a national his-
toric shrine by Interior Secretary
Stewart L. Udall, late last
month. It will be identified as
such forever by a bronze plaque
that will be placed on the build-
ing during appropriate exercises
by the Nantucket Historical As-
sociation, probably early next
month,

Edouard A. Stackpole, a recog-
nized island historian and an
officer of the Nantucket Histori-
cal Association, explained today
that the documents, to be sent
from Washington, certify that
the association guarantees to
preserve the Jethro Coffin home-
stead as a historic shrine and
that it will be kept in good con-

. dition.
Selected by Experts

Stackpole explained the oldest
house was selected for official
recognition as a national histor-
¢ shrine by a team of investi-
gators, all experts on historical
sites and buildings, sent to tour
the New England area by Sec-
retary Udall last summer, The
team viewed ‘several island
buildings that have been under
the control of the Nantucket
Historical Association for sever-
al years.

Stackpole’s knowledge of the
Jethro Coffin homestead is so
thorough he was able to recite
the entire history of the build-
ing from the time it was built
in 1686 during an interview this
week.

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In beginning his recitation of

the historic background of the
building, Stackpole cautioned, |
“Don’t describe the house as a
salt box style structure. It is
properly described as a lean-to

Times Staff Photo by Stuart B. Day

historic shrine. A bronze plaque will be in-
stalled on the lean-to style building, oldest

ket.

great seafaring families of the
island at the time.
Sold to Turners
“During the 19th Century the
building was sold to the Turner
family, who were the last to use

lit as a residence. In 1881 Trist-

Oldest Nantucket

House to Be
National Shrine

Inside the house are three 1m-
mense fireplaces, in the living
room, the kitchen and the keep-
ing room. Logs 7 feet long can
be burned in the fireplaces. At
the rear of the living room is
what -is called the “borning”’
room, where-the children of the
Coffin couple were born. The ori-
ginal type of cradle in which
the children were rocked to
sleep still is to be seen.

On the upper floor are two}
bedrooms, one of which was
called the “bridal” chamber.
Built of oak timbers like ship
knees, the house is held togeth-
er by wooden pegs.

When the Jethro Coffin House
was taken over by the Nantuck-
et Historical Association there
was much work to be done. Poor
type supports: installed years
before had to be replaced with
proper and correct stringers}
and the underflooring and the |
20-inch top boards had to be re- |

type house.”
tackpole, speaking of the im-
ortance of the house to the is-
and said, “Built in 1686, the
house marks the site of one of|
the ancient homesteads of the|
early settlers during a signifi-
cant period in the fortunes of
the second generation of island-
ers. It is not only a valued pos-
session of the Nantucket His-
torical Association, but an im-}
portant asset to the Nantucket}
of today and the future.”
Differences Settled

When, in 1686, Jethro Coffin
took Mary Gardner, 16, for his
teen-age bride, according to
Stackpole, the parents of the
two matrimonial principals were
not on exactly the best of terms.
The marriage, however, brought
about an amicable settlement of
their differences and the parents
of both, as Stackpole tells it,
polled their resources, making
it possible for the young couple
to have Gardner land, and Cof-

: placed. The uncurtained windows |
ram Coffin observed the old were made to appear as they
homestead was rapidly falling | should, with hand-sewed cur-
into dispair. He bought the house ‘tains, All of the walls were re-
back into the Coffin family at paired or restored, white-washed

the verge of collapse. Tristram
proceeded to restore the home-
stead to its original appearance
and maintained it for public
visitation until 1923 when it was|
taken over by the Nantucket
Historical Association to be re-
tained as a historic site.

“Five years later another des-
cendant of Jethro and Mary Cof-
fin, Winthrop Coffin of Boston,
financed the second restoration
of the house and thus insured
the preservation of this historic
site.”

Clippings of newspapers in the
files of the Nantucket Atheneum
supply a complete description
lof the historic house. These clip-
lpings explain the narrow win-
ldow besides the front door en-
trance to the house had been in-

fin supplied building material
to launch the young couple on
their matrimonial voyage.
“Jethro must have been a
young man possessed of great
fortitude and with lots of ambi-
tion. Given the land on the south
side of Sunset Hill, he built the
house with the sweat of his
brow, starting with the construc-
tion of the huge brick chimney,
using bricks that had been car-
ried from England as ballast in
the sailing ships of the era.
“During the next two decades
the home was maintained by
Jethro and Mary and it was
there all of their eight children
were born and raised. Early in
the 18th Century the house was
sold to a family named Paddock.
The Paddocks were one of the

stalled by Jethro to observe any
lvisitors before admitting them
into house.

This protective window was
necessary to guard against the
invasion of the house by Indians
| who might have been under the
influence of too much firewater.
The island Indians were of the
friendly type, but on occasion
one might get out of line and

la time when it was almost on) or painted.

Like Cleaning Attic

There was also at the time
the task of restoring the house
interior to as close to its liv-
able appearance as could be.
When this task was begun, the|
job was comparable to the clean- |
ing out of a storehouse or the
old family attic, which in the}
old days was not unlikely to
have three generations of furn-
ishings of departed loved ones.

Most of this restoration work
was done under the direction of
Mrs. Lewis Edgarton, then presi-
dent of the Nantucket Historical
Society, with the members of
ithe organization giving their
jtime and efforts to make the
jJethro Coffin homestead appear |
as it was after is was construct-|
ed in 1686.

From now on, it will definite-
ily stand as a national historic
‘shrine.

make an unwelcome call on the’

Coffins.
Falls Through Floor

The records show that on one

occasion an intoxicated Indian
did get into the attic and fell
through the flooring, landing in
a closet on the second floor. The
closet has since been described
as the “Indian Closet.” a?

Like most of the early colonial
houses in New England the Horse
Shoe House faces due south, its
longer lines running east and west
by compass. The back or north roof
runs down to within about six feet
of the ground, forming the “lean-
to” as it is called. In shape it is
a perfect rectangle, with no break
in the walls, and the outside di-
mensions are 39 by 30 feet. Much
of the original framing was of oak,
though the summer beams were of
pine 10 by 10 inches. The girts
are 11 by 11 and the oak lintels
forming the arch above the fire-
places are 14 by 14.

The chimney is, of course, one
of the interesting features of the
house, located in the center of the
east and west line, and measuring
about 8 by 14 at the base, cover-
ing over ome hundred square feet.
It is built of brick laid up to the
line of the roof in clay, presum-
ably from a nearby clay-bank. A-
bove the roof a shell-mortar was
used. There are fireplaces in each
of the two south rooms, one in the
kitchen at the back, Which had been
largely bricked up and was un-
covered during the restoration, and
one in the west bedroom on the
second floor. The largest of the fire-
places, that in the east room, is
seven feet wide, five feet high, and
three feet deep.

Joshua Coffin ’ os — Cornen Center Yy ( sey STs;

52 CENTRE STREET — WEST SIDE OF CENTRE STREET ON CORNER OF
Gay STREET, FORMERLY COFFIN’S COURT.

This house is one of the most characteristic of the early 18th century
ship-masters’ houses — an example of a simple, central chimney, frame
gable with lean-to. It was built about 1756 by Joshua and Beulah
(Gardner) Coffin. The present owner is the great-great-granddaughter
of Joshua Coffin, first owner.

The original part of 52 Centre Street was built at Sherburne, the site
of the first town, and moved to its present location in 1756, when the
adjoining ell and wood shed were added.

Originally, as now, the house was a square two and a half story gable-
roofed structure. Previous to the Revolution, a section was taken out of
the front of the chimney to allow for a capacious storeroom which Captain
Coffin designed as a concealed safe deposit for his valuables in the event
of an anticipated British raid on the Island. The secret room has been
generally referred to as the “secret chamber’’ or the “cellar in the attic.”

In the southeast corner of the attic is a small room, known as the
“attic chamber” and possibly used as a bed-room at one time. The fire-
places on both floors remain with seven flues running to the one chimney.
The house is built over a very high cellar which is paved with cobble
stones. The bedrooms are paneled about the fireplaces distinctly in the
manner of a ship’s cabin. The stair appears to be the work of a local
carpenter using crude tools to create the nevertheless graceful design.
The house is equipped with hanging strips which were used extensively
in Nantucket homes which did not have much closet space. There was
formerly a walk on the roof which was easily reached by a stairway
from the attic. On the under side of the stairs to the “walk” are written
in chalk the names of those who may have played there as children on
rainy days.

Captain Henry F. Coffin, grandson of the first owner, shipped on the
whaleship Ploughboy, of which his father was part owner, at the age
of thirteen for a five year cruise and he bore the mark of this voyage to
his dying day — a scar on his leg made by a splinter from the whale-boat
in which he was serving which was crushed by the jaws of a whale.

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Off Cape Cod lies the last piece of America’s
13 colonies — Nantucket Island. Whales and
Quakers have made it what it is today.

Relatively unspoiled or altered through the
years, it is washed by the booming surf and
fanned by healthful, salty breezes. Like a piece
of old silver, it gathers tradition and beauty
with the passing of time.

Now it is sought out as much by visitors for
its strongly nostalgic reminder of how we lived
two and three centuries ago, as for its watery
isolation from the noise, dust and crowding of
the cities.

In the early 1600's one Lord Sterling received
a grant to the island from the King of England.
Sterling kept the title for some 39 years with
no attempt to colonize it, finally disposing of
the place to a Thomas Mayhew, a London mer-
chant, and his son.

Mayhew wasn’t too impressed either. He
sold the barren, sandy island to a group of men
for the whopping sum of “30 pounds and two
beaver hats; one for me and one for my wife.”
These early names, by the way, and others,
recorded on the original shares in Nantucket,
survive to this day and are strongly rooted
through the island’s history.

Mayhew and his group sent out a call for
settlers. The first to call was rugged Tom Macy
and his family of six. They had come all the way
to Nantucket in a rowboat from Cape Cod, no
small risk in those days!

The years of the Revolution? Dismal is the
word. Almost two thousand Nantucketers died
in ocean waters or left the island. Making
matters worse, the whale ships were gobbled
up by the British fleet.

But the hardy natives survived and went on.
The next 100 years might well be called the
“golden century.” Whaling and Quakerism took
over. Great mammals would flounder in the
shallows and dinghies would right away put out.
Arrow followed arrow until the whale was
brought in. It proved a practical thing; oil for
lamps and blubber for the Indians, a delicacy

which helped to cement the friendly rapport
with the original inhabitants.

The whale industry was launched. And the
small island became the whaling center of the
world. Warehouses sprang up for storing oil.
Sailmakers, carpenters, coopers and ropemakers
set up shop. Wharves were built and shipsmith
shops fashioned harpoons and the metalwork—
in huge demand—for the booming ship and
whaling trade.

It naturally followed that costly and beauti-
ful homes were built on Nantucket’s quiet
streets. Culture and a special pride in the com-
munity rose to a golden high. Typically New
England and Quaker in appearance, it soon
became ever and more a thriving township
unlike a lonely little island.

Once more, all the romance, glamour and
adventure of the great whaling days have come
alive. In 1963, the restored Jared Coffin House
was opened to the public. And visitors have
been welcome the year ’round because it has
been turned into an exclusive little inn. Built
in 1845 for wealthy whale-oil merchant Jared
Coffin, the mansion was turned into a Summer
hotel when it later became the property of the
Nantucket Steamship Co.

One side note. The house was occupied less
than a year by the Coffin couple. It was put up
for sale, so the story goes, because Nantucket
did not offer Mrs. Coffin sufficient social scope.
They moved to Boston.

Bought by the Nantucket Historical Trust
in 1961, the wide verandas and Victorian
gingerbread which defaced the house was
stripped. Only then could one see the classical
symmetry of the facades and the finely detailed
front and side doors. Interiors, too, were restored
with painstaking care to their former dignity
under the direction of James Hendrix of William
Pahlman Associates.

Since the trust believes as much in improv
ing the present as the past, its aim was (and
continues now in many projects) to incorporate
the Coffin House restoration into its long-term
plan of improving economic conditions on the
island.

Thus, Nantucket Looms, one of the trust’s
handicrafts projects, was commissioned to
supply nearly 6000 yards of upholstery and
drapery fabrics, rugs, embroideries and cro-
cheted bedspreads—handwoven by Nantucket
women, under the direction of Andrew Oates
of the Rhode Island School of Design. All are
authentic copies of weaves, patterns and colors
in actual use on the island during its “Golden
Age.” Whenever possible, furniture was pur-

. chased from local antique dealers and was

restored and reupholstered by local craftsmen.

The overall interior design program was
matched to the classic, Greek Revival exterior,
stripped of Victorian accretions —to the stately
simplicity of the interiors. Fine, original mantles,
paneled shutters and generous window trims
with typical 19th-century corner rosettes were
preserved in all public and many guest
rooms, as were the scarce random width oak and
waxed pine board floors.

This Wasn't all. To recapture the warmly
hospitable, yet sophisticated character of a mid-
19th-century Nantucket private residence,
rooms were furnished in a mixture of styles
ranging from Queen Anne to Chippendale, Hep-
plewhite, Sheraton, Regency and early
Victorian.

Wealthy whaling captains and merchants
of that time, like latter-date tourists, were in-
veterate bargain hunters. Well traveled men,
they returned from far-flung voyages with
Oriental rugs, Toby jugs, French bronzes, porce-
lain and furniture from England, whale oil

chandeliers and rare Chinese pieces. Many of
these have been carefully duplicated in the
refurnished rooms of the Jared Coffin House.

Outstanding pieces? One is an English Re-
gency sideboard in the dining room with lion
head and ring pulls and brass gallery topped
with urn-shaped finials. Another is the Ameri-
can Federal trumeau-type mirror in gilt wood
with classic figure frieze, and the urn knife
boxes from the same room are of equal beauty.

One almost expects to talk with Jared Coffin
when walking through the main-floor lounge.
It is done in shades of antique yellow, off-white
and red-orange and furnished with shield-back
Sheraton chairs and an exceptionally fine bon-
net top Queen Anne secretary in red lacquer
with mirrored doors. The black marble mantle
makes a handsome background for a French
Empire bronze d’ore (golden) clock and a pair
of porcelain urns, also French. Pedestal tables
are Chippendale in feeling, lamps are antique
Chinese porcelain. The adjoining library has a
Chippendale over-mantle mirror and an an-
tique rug from India, crystal chandeliers were
custom-made as were most of the lighting fix-
tures throughout the house.

Sheraton four-poster bed (posts are turned in i
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The. “Embroidery Room,” the largest and most elegant guest room in the
restored Jared Coffin House, features Nantucket-made crewel work on
imported linen curtains, bedspread and canopy.

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Handwoven silk curtains and antique Chinese porcelain lamps are founc

the lounge.

“ More Victorian in feeling than the other 13
formal” guest bedrooms is the one used by
President and Mrs. Grant on their visit to the
island in August, 1874. The antique Ouchak
rug is a milti-color pattern dear to Victorian
designers; thick as cream are hand-crocheted

bedspreads. Unusual is a spindle lounge chair ,

with whalebone plaques used by Nantucketers
to prove payment of debt.

: On June 15, 1964, the trust completed build-

ing an adjoining structure which replaced a

Victorian house so deteriorated that it detracted

from the beauty of the Jared Coffin House. It

adds 12 rooms to the inn’s capacity, is a simple

traditional two-story house with clapboard front

and shingled sides.

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Another Of The Houses On Historic List

The War of 1812 had a pro-
found effect on a number ofthings,
but tradition and the Quaker in-

| fluence prevailed when it came
| to architecture of the early 1800s.

The Grace Brown Gardner
House’ on Milk St. and Quaker
Road is a perfect example of un-
changing architecture in an era
of change.

It is another in the series of
Nantucket buildings chosen for in-
clusion in the archives of the
Library of Congress by the His-
toric American Buildings Survey.

The Gardner House, now
the home of Grace BrownGardner,
has been in the same family since
it was built in 1820 by George
Coffin.

On Mr. Coffin’s death in 1867,
daughter Charlotte Coffin Gardner
inherited the home, and her son

Arthur H. Gardner took over until
1924.

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The building’s interest lies in
the fact that it illustrates how
accepted architectural forms of
the pre-1800s persisted on the
Island into the 19th century, de-
spite the war. The house is con-
structed in traditional style with
a four bay front and door, and an
off-center chimney.

The windows are all identical,
and the off-center’/arrangement is
typical of older houses. Only the
entrance of the house was made
more ornate than of its
predecessors.

The front parlor woodwork is
Similar to that in the hall, anda
plaster dado with a wide, beaded
dado cap is used on all four walls.
The transition from the interior
plaster wall to the ceiling iseased
by a simple cornice,

The doors in the house lack
raised panels - an indication of
19th century workmanship. The

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acy Ra bh Wa Pre n Po nt er-

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T hi

5

This house

»
at 33 Milk Street is one of the “three-quarte
. . . Ey pees “OW rardner.
sided” houses. It is owned, and lived in, by Miss Grace Brow n Ge
well-loved guardian of much of Nantucket history preserved in

fF ho vst,

ia
iS a a ? .

or

and documents which she has gathered through the years.

—

For the Inquirer and Mirror.

The “Big Shop.”
he “Big Shop” and Its Former Habitues
--A Few Interesting Facts Concerning
Seas This Ancient Rendezvous of the Devo-

~ ee TF

tees of Free Speech.
Messrs. Eprrors :—The announcement in
that negotiations were in

”

your last issue
progress for the sale of the “Big Shop,’
carries me back in imagination fifty years,
when the old building was in its prime, and
the noise of busy industry could be heard
within from early morn till sundown.
Whaleboats and candle boxes were then be-
ing turned out in great numbers by Meesrs.
George aud Reuben Coftin, the proprietors,
and after tea it was always the. rendezyous

for most men dwelliug in the western sec-

tion of the town, who met to discuss the
questions of the day, local, state and nation-
al. As the great majority of the visitors
Mame were sheep owners, it was here that all ques-

to the management of the

e's tions relative :
me =) sheep were. settled, the days for yarding,
* washing and shearing fixed upon, drivers,
Sa appointed, cc. Here the hides of all sheep
B found dead upon the commons were brought,

his share, and leaving the rest for the own- bunker sie:
But it was on shearing days that thepied for many years.

er.

JUNE 17, 1882.

‘Interesting Fact
Shop and its Old-time Habitues.

At the time of the abolition excitement,
about forty years ago, whew the lecturers
had been refused some of the halls to lec.
ture in, the owners of the buildings being
apprehensive of damage to their property
by the mob who had driven them from the
Town Hall, the pré@prictors of the “Big
Shop” offered them the use of their building,
and protection if they chose to take it.
They accepted the offer, and were not trou-

\bled, as the rioters well knew that the men

iwho assembled there—ardent lovers of lib-

erty and free speech—could not be trifled |

with, and their offer of protection would be
carried out, even if somebody got hurt. But
the abolition excitement soon subsided, and

theirlecturers could hold forth in the Athe- |

neum or either of the churches without fear
of being disturbed, or need of protection.
But a change came over the business car-
ried on there with the decline of whaling.
No boats were needed, and the manufacture
of sperm candles being stopped, no more
boxes were called for.

The south half of }

the shop was made into a dwelling house |
for the junior partner, who resided there un- |
til his death, some thirty years ago. ‘The |

north half, belonging to the senior, was still
used as a place of resort, but many of the
older visitors had passed away, new men
had taken their places, the remnant of the
old ones wanted some place where a fire

could be had in cold weather, and ‘‘Liberty |
the finder cutting out one fore-quarter asHall,” where the store of Mr, Albert C,

Bunker now stands, was fitted up and occu-
But time has rolled

old shop was a glorious place for us boys,00; the last of the men who met there fifty |

kitchen has not been modernizec
and remains essentially as it wa
originally. ;

The primary changes in th
house over the years include onl:
a more spacious hallway, the dis.
appearance of two closets, a dif-
ferent mantel on the fireplace
and a bit of restoration work here
and there.

Historically speaking,

from Nantucket to the

for Nantucket.

who assembled there bright and early onyears ago has passed away, and itis meet

those mornings, and as the carts of the va-that now the old shop should go too.
rious owners came along, they invariably
pulled up at the shop to take a fresh de-
parture, engaged some of us who were
Strong cuougn -to-cateh sheep for them; and
eave the smaller boys a ride to the pens.
During the day the great plethoric sacks of
wool were sent to town, and hoisted ys 1
the shop for storage, until sold to the deal-
ers who were generally here at the time to
“chase.

Pane the late fall and early spring, when
business was not driving, and many meu
were out of work, and went fishing from the

the south Shore, the fish were brought to town,
building was the home of Arthur

H. Gardner, editor of the ‘Nan- vided. | c ae
tucket Journal,?? a representative were freely given to any
General
Court, and later the tax collector

i in fr r the s and here di-
tipped up in front of the shop, anc l
a In those days the fish, when plenty,
person who rite

> there : » time, who picked}
yened to be there at the time, w ks
cae one of the size that suited him, and went}
off with it. Barrels of eels from the ditch
were also tipped out on the grass, and the

1830

).

Across the street from the| neighbors came with their buckets _to pick
house is a building known as the| out a mess of ‘good sized ones” for their

ApeRInd Gewh Tras pee

“one-

old books

‘Big Shop,’ formerly owned by
George Coffin and his brother
Reuben.

In 1841, when abolutionists led
by William Lloyd Garrison and
Stephen Foster held meetings on
the Island, Coffin made the shop
available to them since Foster’s
militant attacks on the clergy pre-
vented his use of the Town's
churches and public halls.

FIIMi lh Stree ig

“ae

yt is q oe 7.
dinner, or of small ones to boil for the pig. §© Nis R "ef Guaker RK
Times have changed since then. The idea, _ _

>, . | OF Sarateaa Stat
of giving away a fresh cod or bucket of eels { f
is never entertained, and Madaket ditch it- Time Pp j ctur © was
self has recently been the subject of more
home talk than all others combined. Te R en'=-
During a terrific gale of wind, somewhere
about 1833, the great sperm whale which did
| duty as a weathercock on the south end of
| the building was blown down and broken off
at the ‘“‘small.” An ingenious artisau who
used to manufacture work boxes for the la-
dies in the shop, fitted a; ew set of “flukes”
from sheet copper, and the whale was again
hoisted to his position and did duty for many
years. The place was finally supplied by a
smaller one, which I believe is still “run-
ning to windward” on a neighboring build-

ing.

VAKthie H. Gardner et Lee

: | .
Grace Grown Gandner- ea
Mary (Brown) Gardner - a:

di

NA " ms = ee
A VE OF NANTUC CR? enema be ae ES W. COFFIN 4s
q a % = , nf i L . -
" S$. W. Coffin, 90, ee ATER: Dec. 12—
Charles W. Coffin, 90, died this af-

HALE AND HEARTY ON |“

ond $
Bridg ewater, ; | ¢ernaon at the home of his daughter, |
South street. |

Tt f \

A OOTH BIRTHDAY \. ¥ Mrs. John C. Porter,
Ly re BRIDGEWATER, Dec. 7 He was a native of Nantucket and |
part of his life in

+ Charles W. Coffin, 90, died yes passed the early
Father of.C. W Coffin day at the home of his daughte that town. Later he moved to Mid- |
; 7 _| Mrs, John ©. Porter of 393 South» | deboro. where he conducted a large}

e : street. He was born in Nanfac milk farm. |
| i Noted Whaling rae ‘the son of Samuel and SarafiNye: He was the only living apg |
M ¥ Coffin. He had resided heregs yaneag |member of Nemasket Grange of
| m ; i o and had been for “Con: |
’

and was for : dilebor
merly in sng ember of the First Con-

*
Captain. ness in Middleboro: an years a M
ah : gregational Church there. He is sur

ASE: Ps » Wvrine vived by his daughter and a son.
BRIDGEWATER, Sept. 3.—Charles : Arthur Coffin.
Warren Coffin celebrated his 90th ‘“ The funeral will be held Sunday |
| birthday anniversary at his home, 373 : owas & | at a local funeral parlor. Burial will
Rate street to-day. Mr. Coffin was hp BIee \. | be jn Middleboro.
WS ele te ee Benes, ) DANOMe gurvived by-a sister, |
Coffin tl ather . was Capt. Samuel , pSimpson of Bridgwater, a
Sehalir, ied Jog and tiller of whose Mrs. John C. Porter and a i
‘hibition ee Lima,” is now on ex- % Atthur Coffin of Lakeville: i
atc ee i =; will be held from a fu-;
fi i neral home on Summer street Sunday)
Becith pee pad isin his usual good afternoon with Rev. Arthur G. Cum=j
for svervorne ig nas @ Kind word mings, pastor of the First Congrega~
charter memb: eis she nly living | tional cKurch of Middleboro as offi-
of Middlebor ase S Nemasket Grange ciating clergyman. Interment will be
fo pign bepinelig = ee edema in Nemasket Hill cemetery, Middle-|
- irst Congregational church at boro ; ; FUNERAL
nome With he He makes his : ,
1 lis daught .
C. Porter. ghter, Mrs. John NOTICE
Mr. Coffin received congr i d nL
. ? gratulations DDLEBORO BURIAL.
re ah cate fuer ‘cannes vg nea MIDDLEBORO, Dec: 16:—The body || COFFIN — In San
: onnecticut, Nan- ‘i j ast surviv- ; y
tucket island, Boston, woddlenoro. da of Cha er ee Werertnake! : a ' Francisco, California,
a 4 own Mediate family, in- A Bong was prought here yesterday ae ae = November 10, 1973 Bradford.
| Middleboro: Poe cl Coffin. of } tor burial after Rev. 4. G. Cummings || F = ee! ; M. Coffin, dearly beloved
Sistipson; + Flee ee a eee of the First Congregational eer a husband of Freda Coffin;
7 7 am y at a oe z :
Porter, and granddaughter, wf of which he was a member, cone ———s Loving Father of Hendrika
| Arth mughter; Mrs. services in Bridgewater. He was 2 |) —— : ! ,
ranch ae oe, LO... Brent sore dealer here for years. JAE : = Coffin; Loving brother of
[Sranchilareiywemer falls Pratt, Jr. le Oo rh Ne — ss , | Mary L. Wolthuis, and
STyriends lil Hele ; Robert L. Coffin. A graduate
riends and neighbors in Bridge- - a deeiice Wtticer’
water called throughout the day and : ; § | icer’s
“found Mr. Coffin alert and intensely : ; “i School, Alameda. A member
anterested in all the affairs of the day - ; ! of International
Pot a — ; - allt Organization of Masters
ay," zh Pc ~ — — | | Mates and Pilots. Former
A Native of Nantucket. v° member of First United
~ 2F : Presbyterian Church,
Oakland. A native of San

—~

From The Brockton Enterprise.

Charles Warren Coffin, who re- ‘ = : Franci

cently celebrated the ninetieth anni : ~~ RAD FOR, Prinnde oe ead co

versary of his birth at his home n attend the funeral services

Bridgewater, was born on Nantuck¢ Wednesday November 14 at

island, September 3, 1845. His fa 11 t th JO

ther was Capt. Samuel Coffin, the am. a ad HN COX

log and tiller of whose whaling ves- " : PIEDMONT CHAPEL, 4016

sel “Lima” are now on exhibition at q Howe Street, Oakland,

the ween muse ho ee ; Reverend Arthur Dahlberg
Mr. Coffin is i is usual good | tnioti

health and always has a kind word | : A ’ j officiating. Interment

for everyone. He is the only living ; : Presbyterian Cemetery,

charter member of the Nemasket i Tomales, California.

Grange of Middleboro and he is a

member of the First Congregatioi al

Church at Middleboro ‘Green. He

|makes his home with his daughter,

| Mrs. John C. Porter.

| Mr. Coffin received congratulation

| from many callers today with visi-

itors coming from Connecticut, Nan-

|tucket island, Boston, Middleboro, as

lwell as his own immediate family,

including his son, Arthur Coffin of

Middleboro; a sister, Mrs. Lydia

| Simpson; _ his grandson, Ralph W.

| Porter, and granddaughter, Mrs.

| Arthur E. Pratt and two great

| grandchildren, ‘Arthur Ellis Pratt

| Jr., and ee ste a ye

| Friends and neighbors in sridge- om, ’ 6

water called throughout the day and - "

found Mr. Coffin alert and: intensely : reda c Bre d ford

interested in all the affairs of the ; Ve.

day, both locally and afield. BHrods wile

It's An Even Hundred Today

(Staff Photo)
Many greeting cards have come to Mrs, * Lydia Gardner Coffin
Simpson on the occasion of her 100th birthday. In above photo she is
shown exhibiting some of the cards to her nurse, Miss Christine Barry.

WASHINGTON STREET WOMAN IS Formerly of Groton F244, heats
NOTING 100th BIRTHDAY TODAY ga cia, Simpson, Norwich

Norwich’s oldest resident died well versed on the island's history,
Mrs. Lydia Gardner Coffin Simp-{and forth to school when the horse Saturday night at the age of 104,|) her family having lived there for
ison, known to her relatives and|and carriage were not available. She jleaving two grand-nieces in Grot-} generations,
fridtids os “Aunt G", js ceebeatine later made her home in Chelsea, on, where she formerly, lived. Mrs, Simpson completed her edu-
: ELIE Wa: r Mass., where she worked as a proof | Mrs. Lydia G. Cg}aéyv) Simpson, | cation in Middleboro, Mass., where
her 100th birthday today (Satur-|reader for the Chelsea paper. For | widow of Robert Simpson and a|her father bought a farm after
day). And she will actually cele-|many years after that she was em- descendant of along line of Nan-| retiring from the sea.
brate since her friends and the/ployed as bookkeeper for Moseley’s tucket Island seafarers, passed| She later lived in Chelsea, Mass.,
staff at Elmarchri ° convalescent|Shoe Store in Bosion. away at 10:20 o’clock at the Sima-| where she was a proofreader for
home on Washington street are| In 1911 she was married to Robert chri Convalescent Home in Nor-|a newspaper. She also worked a
planning a real birthday party for|Simpson, a druggist in Boston, and wich, where she had been since| number of years as a bookkeeper
her and there will be an appro-jlived in Brookline, Mass., until 1922 June 27, 1951 for a Boston shag store
priately decorated cake and all the;when her husband passed away. In Shell ithe weand aint oF t} = 4 r Bs 3
trimmings. In fact it should be quite |1925, at the age of 73 years, Mrs.| Misaes ‘Katt She i Ele: 1¢| Husband Died in 1922 ;
a day for the beloved centenarian|Simpson made a trip, alone, to Cal-! pa Bate Pattee veanor) After her marriage in 1911, she
since many of her relatives andjifornia. Upon her return she.made? Simpson, both of 161 Monument} lived in Brooklyn, Mass, Her hus-
friends have already indicated that/her home with. relatives in Bridge- | St, Groton, and from about 1941/pand, a Boston druggist, died in
\they will “drop in on her” during|water, Mass., until 1941, when she to 1951 lived at the same address | 4999
the day. She has already received|came to Groton, Conn., to live with | with her nephew, the late Robert} From 1925 to 1941, Mrs. Simp-
a number of cards, some lovely her nephew, Robert. Coffin Simpson | Coffin Simpson. lson resided with relatives inj
flowers and several useful gifts. of 161 Monument street. She is Mrs. Simpson, whose health had| Bridgewater, Mass. and then|
Mrs..Simpson was born on Nan- presently residing at the convailes- been generally good despite her| moved to Groton, where she made
‘jtucket island, July 5, 1852, the|cent home, 251 Washington street. age, had been seriously ill about] her home until entering the con-
|daughter of Captain Samuel Calder) 1 . Simpson is very well and a week, | valescent home
Coffin and Sarah Bunker Nye. Shejstrong physically. Failing eye-sight Celebrated Birthday soy 4
comes from a long line of sturdy|/hampers her activities, but she is : Last July. she”
and stalwart seafaring folk who|very independent and insists upon ree x a: " : ~
made their homes on Nantucket is-\doing everything she can for her- birthday with her friends at the niece, Mrs. John C. Porter of}
land for several. generations. She'self. She is up and dressed every home—where she was known as/ Bridgewater; a nephew, Arthur R
received her early education in the day and gets up. and downstairs Aunt G.—by joining in group sing- Coffin of Middleboro; four other
Nantucket schools, When her father several times each day, ing and blowing out three candles} grand nieces and nephews, five},
retired from the sea he purchased’ Mrs. mpson has always been on a birthday cake, signifying her| great-grand nephews and six great-
a farm in Middleboro, Mass., and,;very much interested in both do- third year of her second century. | great-grand nieces and nephews.
Mrs. Simpson finished her educa- mes i foreign affairs, and is Mrs. Simpson was born July 5, The funeral service will be: at
tion in Middleboro, Mess., where sheia registered v« the tewn of) 1852, in Nantucket, daughter of/10 a, m. tomorrow at Byles Grot-
often walked the four miles ck! Groton. 2 ge Capt. Samuel and Sara Bunker}on Memorial Home. Burial will
‘ ae a, ck errr ear Nye Coffin Calder. take place at 2 p.m. in Forest
She received her early schooling | Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain,

f Capt. Smock C. CatPin in Nantucket and was: considered! Mass.
George Co PRin bilder:
eT#F#3zs3 Mik S
Nantucket

eS ree oF C hanles Wawa (Bree

| Her closest survivors, besides the}
celebrated her| Misses Simpson in Groton, are a

Accident.
Mr. Arthur H. Gardner, of the Jour-

| P :
nal, met with a serious

accident last
| Saturday afternoon, which will inea-
| Pacitate him tor active duty for atime.
While at work at a printing press, his |
right hand was caught by the machine
and several bones crushed, though it is
not thought any

jured. Dr..}

of the joints are in-
f. B. Coleman was called. |
We trust Bro. Gardner will quickly
recover use of the damaged member,
The aceident occurring right at the

height of the season is most unfortu-

nate. Ay g.id.,/ FIT

Pint Shek

= : Wann
TAPE WEAVING. call

woven with the threads
of life.

A tape binding Nan-
tucket’s past and pres-

TT
: ae es |
The strands of time on I
Will |
/

ent. : ‘
Capt. John, Pitman,

age 93, and Phebe Pink-
ham Folger, age 92, for

sixty-eight years his
beloved wife.

’. Coffin Pitman, Nantucket, 1908
T. C. PITMAN,

Carpenter, Builder and General Jobber.
Residence, 46 Centre Street, Nantucket, Mass.

Ser ee laa pte —
The “Charles W. Morgan” approaching her last berth at Mystic Seaport,
Connecticut. Note the Nantucket “Whané tat” flag, which Captain
Tripp flew from her main topsail yardarm.

4 —— . ih ENE

His Last Command

The late William H.
Curator

|| Mystic Seaport and Captain
: Tripp, retired
of New Bedford’s wh
museum, was the ]
jof the last
/“Charles W,
|“Morgan”

. i Historical Association,
aling }}

ast actual master

wooden whaleship,

When the

was towed to Mystic Se
port during November of 1941
placement in her last berth,
cided to

As she came up the river,
berth, “Will”
Morgan.” wheel. His

Whaling schooner “John R

as |
for |
it was de-
a sailing master ap-
pointed. The United States Customs
through Deputy Collector William J.
F izgerald, handed Mr, Tripp the Blifp’s a
| registry certificate and recognized his | "plied slowly,
}*ppointment as the “Morgan’s” f Genifow,
cial captain:
: The “Morgan” left New Be
November 5, 1941, with Captain Tripp
jat her wheel, in tow of the Coast
Guard cutter “General Greene,” tindae
ECs Boatswain Lawrence Jordan
The erew” making the trip with fay:
j tain Tripp, included Everett §, Al-
| len, of the New Bedford Standard-
Times ; Frank C: Carey, Associated
Press; Louis Sylvia, Anthony Arse
|nault, Amadee Roy, Claude § Pada!
and. P. Howard Young, of Ne sa
ford, and three Coast Guardsmen, |
| John Guziak, Alvin Farntach, ane I i
| Langlois. Arriving. in the “} off |
ier oe Island, late: in the
jat a-bad time, it w
| the night at New London rather th
[risk the twists and turns of the M
| tic River, The next day :
1941, the “Morgan” arr

In 1925, certainly
historic task.
hie he again stood on the old whale
deck, he

Ing about on that occasion.

off.- I was surprised at how easil
ered, and in the night I woul
} $0 to her rail and

Sliding by —

} she ste

dford on watch the wate
as if she wasn’t
under tow but still

Sailing on her

actually
alive and free and
own, only there were
no sails se re
Sails set. I was happy when we
arrived safely at Mystic
sorry male e , y
mts the last voyage was now ended
| ut I am always proud for the
{of being her ] é

but I was also

honor
ast skipper,”

ok

w Bed-

tace” off |
evening, |
as decided to Spend |
an
Ys- |
» November 6,

ived safely at

jualified him for his}
Many years later, while
ship’s
was asked what he was think-

The Late “Will” Tripp
| The death of William H. Tripp last

' Sunday, was a distinct loss to Nan-|

|tucket as well as to his native city of
| ' New Bedford. ( No Vv 2-7, 1929)

William H. Tripp was a man to
|whom the whaling industry was more
than a mere study. He conducted his
own personal research in 1925 as he
observer aboard the

|
|

served as an

schooner “John R. Manta,” last of |

the New Bedford whalers, and con-
tinued his dedication to this chosen
field as the Curator of the New Bed-
ford Whaling Museum on Johnny
|Cake Hill. In his book, “Thar Goes
'Flukes,” he reclaimed many a story

notebook.

He became a
Nantucket and, through the
tucket Historical Association,
lin many ways with advice and coun-
sel. When the plaque memorializing
| William F. Macy, founder of the
Whaling Museum, was dedicated, Mr.
Tripp was the principal speaker .

friend to
Nan-

aided

faithful

; Tripp
|| handed over his papers to the Marinas
her new owner#iy |
to her last’
Tripp remained at the}
Own experience aboard thel.
MantaӤ

oe

ut 3 “OYn OF

was a mixed up feeling,” het)
“When she was up

“\

HEL ee J

| — P: J
ap nae

| SARs, ye ides 3
'

which may have been lost but for his }

Always keenly interested in pho-
tography, he made a fine collection
of color slides of the island. His
services as a lecturer were called
upon on several occasions, and dur-
ing the Whaling Seminar, conducted
this summer by the Nantucket Histor-
ical Association, he showed a most
interesting collection of slides with
an equally interesting commentary.
One of “Will” Tripp’s delights was
to spend a few days on the island in
the off-season, when he could chat

lwith his many friends here, add to
)

is collection of slides, and enjoy a
leisurely walk about the town. Only
a few of his intimate friends, how-
ever, could induce him to become their
house guest, and these were always
cognizant of this inner reticence which
was a characteristic.

“Will” Tripp led a full life, being
active until a few days of his death.
His genial personality, his ready
smile, and old-world courtesy, marked
him as a man of superior qualities.
His friends, his associates, and his

legion of acquaintances will remember

stor
eee es A ’ Nillame,

NEW BEDFORD
MASSACHUSETTS

W, 1) Tri bb ae fe Vira Tor

yes, he knew Nantucket and. knew
it well. None knew it better. He was a
mine of information ©n matters per-
_ _. taining to the island’s past history,
Our readers, both far and near, Will vas! keenly interested in her preset
plearn agen deep regret of the Ses ©" development, and was filled with opti-
pRBor pe aptaer shortly hetore. em regarding her future. A true
midnight Friday. He had been grad- sn of the island at all times, never
vay: AEDS id aati Coa acts vim ead he let pass unnoticed an oppor- |
and his decease had been €xpected for}, nity, either “by word or speech, to |
several days. by , do what he could for Nantucket. |
Mr. Gardner was one of Nantucket’say .., was none better informed than
Bewend hse acer =n ayo every-ye on all matters pertaining to the}
| bods, piinized, Spee orious, honest island. He had made a keen study }}
, and sincere to the core, he Was aS. ¢ “her past—always had facts and |
tue fs iel in his delines With Ns peures which wore rlale and were
| “s instantly available—and he took pride |
jand oeere’ of all plasses. The con in research work, thus contributing |
munity $5 2 whole had implicit trust inuch valuable matter to the history
and faith in him, which had never been of! Nantdeket: ;
jshaken through the passing years, ha Ni keter: he was hot
‘since first he stépped forward in his Although aie cee Aa : frst |
early manhood ‘and interested hiniself ® native of the: yee ey
lin’ town affairs. He was always a 5¢®? the light of day out on hee
wise counselor and a willing helper cific gab sr are ie et eae
and Nantucket and Nantucketers are Panied his father, Capt. Mi ag =
the better for his life of usefulness. | G@™dner, paren <i tee
An interesting conversationalist, captains, : "i i ose si ie z ie
| with a keen mind, a lasting memory 1°! in the ship * arah I pak a8
l'arid-a ready wit, he was ever a source) 2 San F rancisco that Arthur Gardner
| of information, especially on matters| ¥@5 born on the itheof Augustt 894;
relating to Nantucket, and many there| and when but a mere infant he “went}

Death of Arthur H. Gardnei
Friday Night.

a
one of
on voyage

and came back home with his

Arthur H. Gardner was one of the

ings, but in more recent years his
work as secretary of the town’s ad-|
visory committee’ was perhaps the
most effective and of the greatest
value to the town.

"'Mo.*'Gardner had held many of-
fices of trust and responsibility. He
first etiteréd upon’ His career as a
public official in 1882, when he was
elected to thé school board,- where he
remained for twenty-eight years,
serving the greater part of the time
as chairman of the board.

Mr. Gardner served ni! the: Board of
Selectmen from 1887 to 1893 inclusive
and in 1888 was selected as’ Town
Clerk, to fill out an unexpiréé term;
and ‘three years later was sent te the
State Legislature as Representative
from Nantucket, being elected for sév-
en terms in all, covering the years
1891-2, and 1900-1'-2-3-4.

In 1907 he- was’ elécted Collector of
Taxes, which ‘position he has held |
ever Sinee, serving the town well anid |
with marked éfficieriey.. It was with

}

a sense of pride tHat My. Gardner || done one thing or another with suc-|

closéd the books for the year 1923,
only a few weeks ago, with the know-
edge that he had collected every cent
of last year’s tax levy.

Failing’ Kiealth compelled him to re-
linquis# his activities during the past
year and although he was able to pre-

Funeral Services.

Funeral services for the late Ar

It has been fortunate for Nantuck-
: ./et that in Arthur Hinton Gardner it
thur H. Gardner were held at his had such a man, that it appreciated
residence on Milk street, Tuesday af-| his quality, and that it committed to
ternoon at 2.00 o’clock, with a large him the various responsibilities which
attendance of relatives ‘and friends|| he so efficiently and faithfully met.

During the hour of services business) The Masonie funeral service fol
was suspended on Main street as aj /owed, conducted by the Worshipful
mark of respect to his memory. The| Master of Union Lodge, Edward P.

Rev. Charles A. Ratcliffe, pastor of| Tice, with a large delegation, of the |
the Congregational church, officiated, brethren gathered around the

and during the service paid: the fol- Masonic committee: ‘or
towing tribute to the deceased: at grave, int rm

This large gathering, so thoroughly f@™y lot in ec
representative of our Town, is a fit- The pall-bearers Sw
ting tribute to the memory of one who Boyer, Reuben! (@)
has for years unquestionably been our Gardner, 2nd.,
foremost citizen. No one, even mine d Art
among those most conspicuous and arnchaee TU
most honored, has served the town s There were a large number of flor-
long, and in so many capacities, and¢) al tributes in memory of the deceased.
through all the service has held an Se
equal place in the esteem and the af-
fection of the community, as has Ar-
thur Hinton Gardner.

He was a man of unusual ability.
There have been other men of great
ability in the two and a half centuries

i

bert Mack, Harry B.
r I. Weeks,

In Memoriam.

Arthur H. Gardner
February 22, 1924.

of Nantucket’s history, men who have

‘cess, and whose fame will long sur-
vive them; but Mr. Gardnegdid so
| many things, held so*many. public of-
i fices, responded to so many |{calls,
i and through so iong an extent of
ii years, and did all with such unfail-
ing skill, wisdom, and grace, that he
really stands out superior to all
others.

“Were a star quenched on high,
For ages would its light

Still travelling dewnward from the s
Shine on our mo'talesight:

So, when a good man dies,
For years beyond our ken,
The light he leaves behind him
Shines upon the baths of men.”

“He serves his ebuntry best

He was a man of sterling integrity.) Who doeth righteous deed

ays Gineintete of: Nar not annual meeting of the ; t
eee enh vorrei est Histonienl Association last | 100 often men of great ability are not And walks straight paths
g

tucket and he always took pride in the
} fact that he was a “printer,” that
title meaning fully as much to him
)) as any of the various other titles ten-

he was of course too young to remem-
ber, but it was always one of the,in-
ae oe lifc-that

lifs that

tents ook

cic of his early
pleasure in referring to.
After completing his education in

the Nantucket schools, hexentered The

are who have enjoyed and profited by| © 8°
dered him during his career in the

] y¢ r

; Set NAPE TRS 1e long voyage down the
| his counsel. parenteroni the. te ‘ee

service of his home town. \The tes-

Pacific coast, around the tiv of South
America and up the Atlantic to Nan-
+. j "
i timonial tendered him by the annual l
| town meeting a week ago was deeply

tucket. The features of the
: : Inquirer and Mirror office as an ap-
| appreciated by him, although at the

prentice, in the autumn of 1871, and
.___________ } learned the printer’s trade. The of-
fice was then located on the north side
of the lower square in the upper story
of what is now the Wannacomet Wa-
ter Company’s building. _ He served
his time there under Hussey & Hob-
inson at the usual wage paid a prinf-
er’s apprentice in those days—$50 the
first year, $75 the second and $100 the
third.

Completing his apprenticeship, he
worked in Bostén fot a while atid then
returned to Nantucket. - In Séptem-
ber, 1873} he’ commenced the publica-
tion of the “Nantutket Journal’ and
issued the first number on the 26th of
September, 1878; ftom’ the ante-rooms
of Pantheon Hall fevér what is now
|Small’s drug store). kater he moved

|his printing plant to thé Brick -block

on Main street over thé petiddical
| store and continued its publication for
s|; twenty-one years, ‘the last issue of the

Journal being on the 23d of Novera-

ber, 1899. .

Mr. Gardner was always a clear and

forceful writer. He had the ability

| to put his thoughts into words, by both

= | speech and pen, and his voice was

time he was too weak to read it him-} heard on the town meeting’ floor at an

self, or to receive the committee. It} early age, he continuing to be a reg-

gave him a sense of pleasure, how-| ular attendant up to and including the

lever, to realize that his life-long ef- | annual meeting of 1928. He often

forts for his home town were not for-
gotten by his fellow citizens.

;
}
;

3
|

The late Arthur H. Gardner

July, having been elected president of \
‘the as8ociation the previous year, and |
also niadé @trip to Boston in Novem-
ber atid addPessed the Sons and
Daughters 6f Naftecket at their an-

‘nual reunion, he, a8 WélPss his friends

‘and relatives, realizéd #Hab iS health

| wo
on
nua

uld not peiinit him to agaif serve
the advisér¥ éommittee at the air
1 town meeting a4 Nantucket was

thus deprived of his ser¥iéés, which!
had been most-yaluable in this pa#ti- |

cular capacity ever since the com-
inittee was first.organized.

On the 2nd of June, 1879, he mar-
ried Miss Maty M. Biwi, who sur-
vives him. They have always been
a devoted, home-loving couple. Two
| children were born to them, a son,
|Ralph, dying in_ boy-hood. Their
| daughter, Miss Grace Brown Gardner,
‘who also survives him, is one of the
instructors at the Framingham Nor-
mal School, and came home two weeks
ago to be with her father during his
last illness. The sympathy of all is
|extended the widow and daughter in
their bereavement.

Mr. Gardner was:a: member of
Union Lodge, F. & A. M., of this
town, and had served several years as
president of the Nantucket Atheneum,

{as well being president of the Histor-

f

ical Association at the time of his

death.

Funeral’ services are to,be held at
his late residence on Milk street, Tues-
day afternoon at 2.00 o’clock, the serv-
by the Masonic

ices being conducted’
Lodge.

correspondingly distinguished for mor-/ However others*stray;
al quality, but in Mr. Gardner’s case And leaves his sons,
intellectual power and moral quality AS uttermost bequest,
His fellow towns- A stainless record

| were inseparable.
jmen had absolute confidence in him,
| whatever office or position he held
| during his forty-two years of public
| service, assured that he would not
only do the thing that was wise, but
{also the thing that was unmistakably
| right. .

He was a man who took life serious-

ly. His was a genial nature, capa-

pleasant, the cheerful, the amusing
‘things of life, but withal not forget-
iting that life is real, life is earnest.
| He was no idler, no trifler; he did
ale his might what his hand found
to do,
He Was a man of great public spir-
His long and varied service was
a service of others, not of himself.
He sought and served the general
good. Anything that he could do for
the community he loved he did lgladly
and unreservedly. To him we may
well apply words which the poet Ten-
| nyson used in deseribing another pub-
| lie servant:

ie
jit.

“We see him as he movéd,

How modest, kindly, all-aéconiplished, wise,
With wlhiat subilinie fepiession of hiniself,
And in what limits, and how teriderly ;

; Not swaying to this faction or to that;)
| Not making his high place the lawless perch
| of wing'd ambitions, nor a Yantage-ground
For pleasure ; but thfough all this tact of years
Wearing the white flower Of a blameless life.”

Of oldést and firiest Nantueket

stock, Arthur Hinton Gardner did
honor to that stock. He was one of
the island’s finest spiritual products;
one who will long be spoken of with
jappreciation and love; one whose life
jwill be a standard by which those who
knew him will try others, either in
public or in private life.
_ The well-being of a people depends
in large measure upon its possession
of men of ability and*character who
will devote themselves to the public
good, Well is it for a community or
a nation when it has such men, when
it recognizes their quality, and when
it calls them to service from which
they will pot hold back.

\

ble of appreciating the bright, the |

Which all men nay read.”
|

The Late Arthur Gardner.
| Editor of The Inquirer and Mirror:

Your editorial on the passing of Ar- |
thur Gardner, in my humble opinion—
}based upon an acquaintance of forty
| years—was most fitting, was fine, true ;
to life, adequate. And there never |
was a more speaking likeness than the |
| portrait of him which you used.
| If your editorial were not so thor-}
oughly satisfactory I would be tempt- }
ed, as an old friend, to testify my-
self. But it suffices,’ and we might |
write “verbum suf.” As it is I will |
; content myself to add this faltering
| tribute:

Arthur Gardner was essentially’
Nantucket. © His extraction, his habit
and even his: appearance were. remind-
ers of the island’s ancient days. And
| while his varied and, valuable services
are safely recorded. in the archives,
his kindling eye, his swinging gait, are
now but memories.

I will hazard a single suggestion:
That a copy of the editorial with the
portrait—suitably inscribed and
framed—be conspicuously hung in
that little sanctum of his, the Collect- |
or’s office. To be seen by every tax-}
payer when making his annual pil-|
grimage there, telling of a life so
*dovlur. that it was, and is, a ‘piritnal
force.

George L. Carlisle.
Berkeley, California: Mar¢h 4,

i

DECEMBER 9, 1922

Two Gardners Introduced
by Tax Bill.

We clip the following from a re-
cent issue of the Meriden, Ct., Daily
- Journal:

A lady at Nantucket, Mass., sent
her check for $90 to the collector
there for her taxes, but addressed
her letter to The Collector at Wash-
ington St. The letter found its way
to Washington, Connecticut, and

Cuurck Weppine.—A very pleasant

| event of the week, was the nuptials of Mr.
Arthur H. Gardner, of the Journal, and
Miss Mary M. Brown, daughter of Mrs.

-| Sarah M., and'the late George F. Brown,

Monday evening. The ceremony was per-
formed at the North Congregational Church
(which was filled with the relatives and
, friends of the contracting parties) by Rev.
'/ Howard A. Hanaford, the pastor, whose
remarks were particularly impressive. The
bride was attired ina rich dress of ecru
French camel’s huir, tastily trimmed with
satin, en train, and the groom in the usual
suit of black, with gloves and tie matching
the bride’s dress. The pulpit and gallery
of the church were beautifully trimmed
“loadin “tay ied hs pets Lean | changed his mind as the rest of the
munion table and altar were a pyran QSAR Se ee te ai
| tastily-arranged dishes of elegant flowers. | P@tty joined in the chor sg ith Ora:
Among the guests present were the elderly | dinner bells, ete. Finally, all were i 1
grandmothers of the bride and groom,| admitted to the cheerful fireside, erty a to eS let
aged respectively 89 and 91 years. The| where cards were enjoyed for some | Seply:_ e and received the following
happy Sar ag ag LR steamer » sonar time, after which certain mysterious | :
morning for a brief tour, carrying with| 7 ee
them the best wishes of a host of friends. packages Mere gs and = “ stig
We, in company with our entire office force, | Set with a beautifully decorated birth-
wish them a life of double-leaded hap-|day cake in the center. The party
piness, We tender our hearty congratu-} then sat down to coffee, sandwiches,
lations to our young friend of the Journal ice cream and cake. The next day
we noticed Mr. Gardner looked rather

on his accession to’ matrimonial responsi-
bilities. We have observed that he has ; ;
for a long time been in a Brown study, but | Peaked—the result, no doubt, of three
we always felt that it-was liable to lead to | huge slabs of ice cream.

something of the sort. Our bard has been i px -

) strongly tempted to prepare an epithalami-
um for the joyful occasion, but on reflec-
|

Mrs. Arthur H. Gardner received a |
pleasant birthday surprise in Quidnet
last Saturday evening. The party
quietly approached the house to find
Mrs. Gardner gracefully reclining up-
on a couch, while Mr. Gardner read
poetry to her. Mr. Brown then most
feelingly rendered a selection upon
the harmonica, under the east win-
dow. (We were indeed sorry to dis-
turb such an ideal home scene). How-
ever, both started to their feet, Mr.
Gardner, whose thoughts are ever
with “Wrecks Around Nantucket”,
exclaiming, “It’s a vessel!” but soon

]

information as to what it was for,
the Meriden-Middletown Arthur H:

Mr. Arthur H. Gardner,

Middletown, Conn.

Dear Sir and Namesake:

Your letter came to hand last
evening and occasioned me no little
surprise and some jealousy, for I
thought I had a monopoly of the
name, which like greatness was
thrust upon me independent of any
exertion or volition of my own and
has clung to me through good and
4 : Rare evil report for many years.

It and I first made our acquaint-

ance as well as our debut on the

; a a “cen? the erg Be -

<n : a2? OBIT ave carried it over the Pacific, At-
Vine 7,46 7F With the fal sip 4 lantic and Antarctic Oceans from
“ pea Tas ith the fall of evening shades last Sat- [San Francisco to New York via Cape
nIDAL Loar.—On Tuesday last a brida urday, the flame of a noble life was extin- |Horn, and into every one of the New
loaf arrived here from San Francisco fo guished, and a christian spirit journeyed England and Middle states and even

Mr, and Mrs. Arthur H. Gardner, it being to life immortal. Kind hands had minis- had lusi ight to it chal
a present from Mrs. Mary Macy, of tha tered to her wants during long suffering, lenged before. a Soa
city, an aunt of the bride, for whom sh: 0d medical skill made an effort to give Tink “it ‘wey scniakespeare: io
was named. It was beautifully frosted an¢ her a new lease of life, but without avail ee en ee ee
| ornamented with flowers, and bore th:and Mrs. Charlotte Gardner passed qui tly
letters, in pink, “‘“M. M. B.” away to her long rest. ened
lections of her as a shinin
christian faith

tion, has decided to spare us the infliction.

I
& example of av *
i | languages to fit the occasion had he
a =H ess noble purposes do we | run up against one who confessed to
iE Y our last tribute to the memory of one | having taken possession of both his
intimately known to us for long years, and | Mame and his cash. .
ee whose noble life excellent life-lessons RS: iphabed R Nae) een ee shoal
sr it be drawn. She was a christian in ter intended for me could have been
printing ‘press. hi actions as well as words, and her loss will addressed, and what manipulations it
wae g press, his | be a severe blow to a large circle of friends. | Uadetwent to have’ been diverted
Went ov che machine | Ty the Orthodox Church, of which she shies von Seek, Mieeasetts. ie
hough it is , ashington an iddletown -
of the chien Yar 4 | long been a member, will her loss also be Soman ee i
8 are deeply felt, while to her two sons will be f I DERE G you ace Saco oe
| offered the tenderest sympathies of th pei sea. phere Sghort ob
| Mee eae 8 e *
community in their sad bereavement, In he tient at ta Bheyl ee Gees
| early life Mrs. Gardner was an assistant

the advent of the Mayflower, whose
ne: pick? coe rie = yon removed
| teacher with Farnham Spofford, and those antucket, and ‘whose descendants
young ideas she so patiently taught, learn- |} pm = a oe: New ia
ed to regard her with deep interest, which |} | Of course I shall be glad to receive
will be reawakened on learning of her de- | ee ari and give proper credit
mise. The tender line in. therefor.
ages: “s a mes communicated to "~ Thanking you for your courtesy in
“nai, which are reprinted below, || the matter and anticipating your re-
express a jist appreciation of her womanly :

; | ply, I am very truly yours,
merits, and are a sweet tribute worthily be- | Arthur H. Gardner.
stowed:

Accident,
Mr. Arthur IH]

nal

|

| Gardner, of the

i JSour-
met with

Saturday

®& serious accident last
ifternoon, which Will inca-
| Pacitate ‘im tor active duty for a time
While at work at is
right hand
and

several bones cr ushed

not though ny
‘ed. Dr. BE. B

trust

>» in-
Coleman was called
1?» 4
bro,

Gardner wil] quickly

recover use of the damaged
Che occurring
height of the se

member,

the
most unfortu-

wae Av§. ja 15997

accident right at
aid a

ason 1s

Sweet rost is thine—thy labor done:

Freedom from pain and sickness won—
Thy works do follow thee.

Above all worldly wealth and fame

Thy deeds of love have made thy name
A sacred memory.

To our brother of the Journal-we tender
our heartfelt sympathy (a small consolation
we know) in the loss of a kind and loving
mother from his household, whose depart-
ure will leave asad gap in the home circle,
which will always be deeply felt.

from there was sent here by ac-
quaintances to one of the same name.
as_the collector, Arthur H. Gardner.
- Upon receipts of the check with no

Nantucket .

Nantucket, Mass., Oct. 81, 1922.

the Dominion of Canada and never

tween the man who appropriated his
good name and the one who deprived
With tender reco]- | him of the contents of his purse, but
don’t believe he could have found.

| strong Republican’ majority for a regu-

| good
| party principles goes. without saying,
| refuse to be bound by the caucus nom-

| laut

| defeat another.

ey, hao
7

LETS

Narrow Escarr.—On Thursday after-
noon last, while Mr, Arthur Gardner was.
walking on the Old North wharf, he heard
the report of a pistol, fired on the Steam-
boat wharf, followed almost instantly by a |
whizzing sound and a blow on the right
side of his neck that caused him to stagger
considerably. He states that on regaining
himself the bottom of his right ear and
side of his head felt benumbed. He re-

_ moved his collar and found an indentation
| made bya bullet, which must have entered

his neck had it not been for the protection
afforded by it. As near as could be
judged the ball must have struck the water,
glanced up against the’ gentleman’s neck,
grazing the ear and side of the face in its
course. Mr. Gardner says that he took a
boat and rowed over to the wharf from |)
which the bullet came, and there found a |
gentleman, with pistol imsyhand, who stated |
that, he had just fired at a rat; but he did
not think the shot was from his weapon.
There was but one report at the time, how-
eyer, and the ball undoubtedly came from
that pistol, as it’ was admitted that the
bullet entered 2 hole in the wharf, whence
it probably struck the water and glanced
up in the manner heretofore mentioned.
It is quite common to go Gown’ on but
wharves now-a-days, and shoot at gulls,
targets, &c, It is a dangerous prac-
tice, and the proper authorities should see |
that it is stopped, for a man don’t care to
be rambling about the wharves where there
is shooting, fearing that he is liable to be
the victim of somebody’s carelessness, *

aE /

Mr. Arrour H. GarpNner, who
wis tepresentative for Nan-)
tucket in the next General Court, as an
independent Republican, has cause for
congratulation. His election is a re-
buke to the Republican organization
and its The machine has |
been disabled. A strong Republican
town ought to be able to command a

chosen

methods.

But when
whose fidelity to

Republican nominee.
Republicans,

ination, there must be something polit-
ically wrong. Mr. ¥ardner
ported by Republicans, Demoerats and
Prohibitionists. of widely
divergent Séntiments upon many ques-
tions, waived their differences and
united in his support, not because he
was their choice, but because his can-
didacy furnished the opportunity, to

Was sup-

Persons

| defeat a regular candidate of the dom- |
| inant party.
| feat a candidate than to make choige of

It is much easier to de-|

The choice in this case was to
Every one voting for |
Mr. Gardner, however, conceded his|
ability and integrity, and commended |
his independence. They will not ex-

one,

; pect his action to be in accord with

their own on all questions. His oppor-
tunities will be very fine. |
|

<a

i

\

EVERY CENT SECURED BY
WOMAN TAX COLLECTOR

All Nantucket’s. Prece

dents Broken -by Mrs

MSamn Gardner—‘‘Just Did It’’; That's All

NANTUCKET, Jan—For the

this island for 30 Eneglis pounds

two beaver ha “one

has had

Nantucket
n. And for

4 wom:

1 collected,

cent of the $161, yefore the pub-
tion of the annual report.

men the

which

wanted
Mrs
Now

nother term.

be surprising
Mr

administration

would not Nan-}
Gardner's excep-!
as establishing a |
made it a tradition \
in the tax office.
an old-fashioned
things

have always been.

if
tucket
tional

prece

accepted
lent, and
1 woman
this is

most

are done just

|
town, |
AS |

3 The bell ringer |
rings the great bell in the old Con- |
egational Church watch tower
s at 7 in ‘the morning to tell the
the workday has commenced |

1d 52 times more noon, and
for curfew § in the

|

52 |

be
|

at
at

7. Twelve
jonable dinner hour.
ntucket

go to work

rot n on N
xo to bed at 9.
MH ri > must

do folks rea
the
156 stroke
he al
at home lis

he

You may ask why
still count
1 are told that

islanders

» and y
The
and tell

him {jf misses

f the Nan-
y the weekly paper ap-
that

He tells

editor o

blanket-size

century

edition
ago,
t always has.

“Just Did It”

that reason enough?

part of the quaint charm |

that it shows!
If it finds

generally it does, it ré

ognizes no compulsion about the latest, |

eithe

ind is not
indeed a

this

great
of land communi

no rage for the ultramoder

the old good, as
in mode or mechanics. ;
never pick out Mrs Gard-}
tradition She has|

7 1 preserving |
had lived
nd 10 as a true child}
of Nantucket befcre she ;
life. Dat founders
town and if f one ¢ its

historians

breake
lecting a

t. She
threescore
entered public;
of the|
modern |}

officers, life
in the legend and lore |
home, j
Gardner has been}
the Nantucket Historical
recording secretary of the |
Athenaeum. It has Deen her modest
office to keep the records of those who |
wrote Nantucket’s early story. Now at
> has begun te rnake local history
Those who come after will find
r name on the pages she has turned

so often.

and
has been steeped
of her st i
For y
treasurer
Society and

her
sland

of

taxes you
would learn a great deal*about the cus-
toms of the whaling days and the early
Nantucket families. E

3 is for her methods as tax collector
extraordinary, why She ‘just did it’’;
that’s all

first »
year since Thomas Mayhew, in 1659, sold}

| ae ¢ i
andl read from the ceiling.

strorig now as they were in the *40s, and |
the names painted on the sides can be) }

for myself and |

Unopposed for Reelection
Along with her tax collector’s duties
Mrs Gardner still carried on her lifelong) |

| study of the genealogy 01 Nantucket.

From the number of Revolutionary

i forbears she has found for descendants
r i of i
| homes have scught her professional ald

ro ; InOp-}

the-island, who from far-distant

in proving title to membership in the

} Scns or Daughters of tha Reyolution, it

wculd eprear that the Islanders of, 1876
reserved their own independent inter-

| pretation of the Nantucket neutrality

te-> jawed ty the dominant Quaker -.e
fmeni ef the iJand at the beginang oi
the break witn England.

Mrs Gar rer’s late hushar’, “rtbur
tF acr, author of “Wrecks Around
Naatucke*,’- was elected anv
‘ax for 18 years. When he
died, after his 1924 election, the Select-
men appoited Mrs Gardner to complete
his term.

Now she goes up for election in her
own right, secure in the strength of her
record.

Fire Buckets Still Hang
Nantucket is prosperous. Taxes a
moderate. Why shouldn't they pay |
their taxes like any other bills when)
they are due? It is just a matter of
eceing it, says the island's grandmoth-

erly tax official.

She did not hesitate to send out war-
rants and to advertise parcels of land
for when legal time for tax
payment had els psed. But the property
that was forfeited for nonpayment of
taxes was of insignificant value, unde-
sirable lots owned by nonresidents that
Were taxed amounts varying from 21
cents to a dollar, and generally con-
sidered as scarcely worth owning. Mrs
Gardner @oes not ‘feel that she has been

‘sat
rcalected

coll. stor

sale the

a harsh collector,
She comes of a race that have always
about the tasks the
world One her forbears
fought with John Paul Jones, The sperm
oil lantern grandmother used to
carry when went calling evenings
hangs in her hall, near her grandfath- |
hall clock, which keeps 4s |

> as it did 100 years ago.
hand-painted fire buckets

found their way

imposes. of
her

she

The her }

Nantucket’s First Woman Tax

_—

Wune

Ti?
Wedded 25 Years.

Representative and Mrs. atthor H.

Gardner of Nantucket observed

25th

the
anniversary of their wedding

last evening at 383 Fairview. street,
Roslindale, where Mr. Gardner makes |
his home while attending the sessions |

of the

legislature.

It was an informal affair, members

of the

ping in during the

family and close friends drop- |
evening to extend

congratulations. Many beautifal gifts }

were received from
dale, Nantucket and elsewhere.

friends in Roslin- |
Re-

freshments were served.

Among those. present
Grace Gardner, daughter of Mr.

Mrs.

New Bedford; Dr. and Mrs, George
Gardner, of Everett,
Chadwick of

Mrs.

rs-heuaat GARDNER

Collector
Mra.

San Francisco, Miss L. G.

| Chelsea, Mrs.
| Horace Simpson of Chelsea,

Miss
and

a school teacher at
H.

Mrs. Sarah M.

Nantucket, mother ,of

Alonzo Coflin of
Coffin of
Robert Simpson and |
Mr. and

Theodore Gates and Miss ,Eva |

were

Gardner,

Gardner,

: -4+-g of Roslindale, Representative |
HyMENEAL.—Last Monday evening, Mr. Mrg. Hinckley of Vineyard Haven,
Arthur H. Gardner, publisher of the Nan- ggentative Asa T. Newhell of |
tucket Journal was married to Miss Mary,, Representative W. S$. Bamford |

M., daughter of Sarah M., and the late
of this town.
ceremony was performed in the North;
Congregational Chureh, by Rey. Howard
A. Hanaford, in a most impressive and
becoming manner. A very large assem-
bly of invited friends witnessed the solemn
contract, and the good wishes of all pres-
ent will ever follow the worthy couple in
their life pilgrimage. An unusual pleasure
was the presence of the two grandmothers
of the bride and bridegroom. ‘These
elderly grandparents were $9 and 91 years
old, respectively, and their united ages
amounted to 180 years! The bride was
elegantly attired in a rich dress of French
camel’s hair trimmed with satin, en train.

George F. Brown,

in color, ecru, while the bridegroom was
dressed in the conventional suit appropri-
ate on such occasions. A brief bridal in-
augurated the happy union. May
singing of the robins and the breath of
June be to them a sacred hymnal as_ they
take life’s journey together, alike a bles-
sing to them in prosperity or adversity.

Fee

grandfathers used hang above the clock. | geese

When the fire call sounded folks used to
cast their fire buckets into the street |
and those who were going to the fire;
picked up the buckets and formed @
bucket brigade with them. After the
fire, the buckets were returned to their}
owners.

Mrs Gardner’s & |
deep cylindrical buckets of leather, with }
handles. They look as

undfathers owned

feather thong

|

lx
Fe

|
has been a member for 28 years, and
'

Brockton, and Representative

Thejam H. Ouddy of Boston. |

Mr. and Mrs. Gardner .iava been)
residents of Nantucket all their lives.
| The former was born in San Frangisco
while his mother wags accompanying
her husband, Captain William B.
Gardner, a merchantman captain, on
@ voyage in 1854. His mother returned
to Nantucket and he has resided there
since. On Jane 2, 1879, he married
Miss Mary Mi. Brown of Nantucket,
Rev. Howard A. Hanaford perform-
inng the ceremony at the North Con-
gregational church.
Since reaching his majority Mr.
| Gardner has been prominent in the
| affairs of the town and has held
almost every office in the gift of [his
fellow citizens. He is chairman of
the school committee, of which he

is serving his seventh term as repre-
sentative to the general
was a member of the legislature in
700, 01, '02, ’08 and ’04.
A, While attending the sessions of the
legislature Representative Gardner |
pas made his home in Roslindale,
| Where he has become very popular.—

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court, He

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i: / Death of Mrs. Gardner.

, Our readers, both far and near,|
(will regret to learn of the death of

‘Mrs. Mary Macy Gardner, widow of

Arthur H. Gardner, who has been in|
‘failing health for several months.

‘De th came on Thursday of this

week.

| Mrs. Gardner was a woman ad-

mired and respected by all. She had

served the town as collector of taxes

and had served well. As the first

woman collector in the state she

gained considerable notoriety, but she

Venred naught for that; it was in do-

‘ing her task well that she took pride. |

She assumed the responsibilites of |
the position after the death of her|
husband and worked early and late
in fulfilling the duties of the office.
She was conscientious and particular
“every detail and was held in the
highest regard by every town official
and by all of the tax-payers with
whom she came in contact.

Mrs. Gardner was a historian.
She delighted to delve into Nantuck- |
et history and traditions. She was}
also a student of genealogy and was |
frequently called upon to trace fam- |
ily history, having a large amount of |
material at hand for her research |
work. j
| Mrs. Gardner is survived by a
daughter, Miss Grace Brown Gardner,
an instructor at the Framingham |
Normal School, who has been with |
her mother constantly through her
last illness.

/

elle

———

Compliments Mrs. Gardner.

Mrs. Mary M. Gardner, who has

tendered her resignation as Collector |

of Taxes because of ill health, after
most efficient service to the town, has
received a letter from Henry F. Long,
the Tax Commissioner of the State
of Massachusetts, which shows that |
he, too, appreciates what Mrs. Gard-!
ner has done in fulfilling the duties
of her position. His letter reads:

State House, Boston.)
July 22, 1927.!
Mrs. Mary M. Gardner,
Nantucket, Mass.
My Dear Mrs. Gardner: :
I am very sorry to learn of your
illness, and that, because of your ill-
;ness, you were obliged to resign the
| office you have so well filled in Nan-
jtucket. I am not sure that your
neighbors appreciate the good work
that you have done.
f In comparison with the other cities
and towns of the Commonwealth, your
,; Success has been most pronounced.
| I wish that we had collectors in every
}one of the 355 cities and towns in
| Massachusetts who reached the same
| oint of efficiency in the collection of
axes that has been your annual rec-
ord.
I know that you will always carry
}with you the thought of work weil
and effiiciently done. There is no over-
estimating the advantage to the pub-
jlic that efficient conduct of a public
office accomplishes. You have set a
mark which I hope will always be a||
| Standard in Nantucket. |
| With best personal regards, I am [|
} Cordially yours, i
| Henry C. Long,
| Commissioner.

Born March 29,

MRS. MARY MACY (BROWN) GARDNER
Treasurer of the Nantucket Historical Association.
1855.

MRS. MARY MACY (BROWN) GARDNER.

Our members, both far and near, will regret
to learn of the death of Mrs. Mary Macy Gardner,
widow of Arthur H. Gardner.

Mrs. Gardner was elected Treasurer of the
Nantucket Historical Association in 1922, serving
most acceptably in that capacity until her death on

yust 11th, 1927.
er ie was a woman admired and respected by
all. She had served the town as collector of taxes
and had served well. As the first woman collector
in the state she gained considerable notoriety, but
it was in doing her task well that she took pride.

Mrs. Gardner was a historian, delighting to
delve into Nantucket history and traditions. She
was also a student of genealogy and was frequent-
ly called upon to trace family lines, having a large
amount of material at hand for her research work.

At a recent meeting of the Council of the
Nantucket Historical Association it was voted
that the following resolutions be adopted:

Whereas by the death of Mrs. Mary M. Gardner, the
Nantucket Historical Association has suffered the loss of
an able official, therefore be it

Resolved: That the Council herewith expresses not
only its appreciation of the faithful services of Mrs.
Gardner during the years in which she has held the office
of Treasurer of the Association, but also its recognition
of her loyal and unfailing support in all the work under-
taken by the Association or relating to its welfare.

Resolved: That the Council in the name of the As-
sociation, extend to Miss Grace Brown Gardner its sym-
pathy in her sorrow at the loss of a devoted mother.

Resolved: That the above resolutions be spread upon
the records of the Association, that a copy thereof be sent
to Miss Grace Brown Gardner, and the same be published
in the next issue of The Inquirer and Mirror.

Died August 11, 1927.
Thy blessed presence is about me still;
So ERE i a nai treatm dial cE IE REDS OIE SS ST NT TE SS A,

RALPH GARDNER, son of Arthur II

and Mary M. Gardner, was taken by\
the mysterious hand of death, on Mon-?*

| day evening last, and led from his suf-
fering physical fate to a restful sphere.
Death is not the enemy but the friend
and certain heir of all mankind. No
one can

ae

Dollector of Taxes Ther

affirm that death is not | Made Record Ja Office.

greater blessing than life, but in the %

| Common mo patriarch and child
mingle’ together im silent rest. ‘The

Stone rolled against the gates of the ;

a life iu this world. Every white eas-

ket sugyests a translated life. Wemay

indulge no tears for the future of a

young spirit that has fulfilled its mis-
| sion, resting in the calm and. still em-
| brace of the shadowy angel. Ever}
| grave must have its grief.

ing with the loved of Earth its pang}

of sorrow. Grief and sorrow are no)

the flow of tears.
a promising child.
scholar and a good boy.

t

He was a. bright town's taxes had been

= his books closed. It is doubtful if such
A bereaved 7 condition of affairs ever existed in

Special Dispatch to the Globe |
NANTUCKET, Feb
ardner,
0

“He served many terms in the Massa- |

chusetts, Legislature as the island rep-
promistion: a
‘ ‘| ri “se Fone . >proh ion. an

assuaged with words of pathos nor Dy D auitnnd delred Dy al
Ralph Gardner was A few weeks ago he an

was a great worker for| —
equal _ franchise gor} _
classes... |
unced to the }
ownspeople that every penny of the
collected and

family, mourn his departure. His place Massachusetts before, and surely never

in the household can never be filled.’

Time alone can lift the burden of the Sore peemtycket

Nantucket. .
In 1877 he marriedfMiss Mary Brown,
who, with ‘one

daughter, Miss Grace Brown Gardner, a

funeral hour, and until® the lessening ¢
needs and duties ofeach day shall make ‘i
his little grave a place of peaceful joy +

to those who mourn his absence. zi

Framing

eacher at the State Normal School at
m, survive him. et
Mr Gardner was often moderator of
own meetings and served 28 years on
he School Board. He had been collector

May of taxes since 1907. He was president

f Nantucket Historical Association and|

re ic i . ‘ts in ® member of the Masonic lodge, which)
the love which binds other hearts “in ats i pH Piheraly eertine ae tte
pure affection, and consolations which home on Milk st, Tuesday afternoon.

bring hope to other lacerated lives
afford sach healing balm te the afflicted
parents and bereft sister of little Ralph
that the clouds of fate may be dispelled, |
and their loss counted as his gain.

I will believe that, though unseen and voiceless

That Thott over every‘step of mine rejoicest
That leads me onward to the heavenly hill.

My spirit-love! my seraph-yuardian' ever
Hover around my dark aud lonely Way 5
Thongh the thick yeil of flesh and s-nse may
sever °
My soul from Thine for many # weary day.

(f Thon way’st never lend in brislitmess o'er
me r <=
While in its house of clay nme Spirit dwells,
Help me to tread the path that fies before bie,
And yeach the world wheve there are no fare-
wells. Tey bets

Massachusetts
of

Society

Mayflower Descendants

Mrs. Arthur HH.

is entitled to all privileges

Gardner
of the Society

for the year ending 31 December, 1926

State OE,
Number_Aet 20207

Secretary

“oy

THE GATE POST

STATE TE ACHE RS cou a EG E, FR. \MING HH: \M, MASS., MAY 23, 1941 ;
an ee She had ‘gone home to Nan-

tucket to assist her father in the publication of
the paper of which he was editor; his illness had |
subsequently occasioned the sale of the paper,
and freed her to do substitute work in the Sias-
conset School. After graduation from Bridge-
water she taught for thirteen years in the prim-
ary schools of New Bedford, during seven of
which she was a teacher in the New Bedford
Training School.

Aiter Miss Gardner’s early education had been
supplemented by university study, she taught
science, from 1915 to 1918, in the B. M. C. Dur-
fee High School in Fall River.

Among the many tangible evidences of Miss
Gardner’s interest in the practical teaching of
science are the early morning bird walks, which
she and students took each spring. For the first
time more than one student must have heard the
song and caught a glimpse of the meadow lark,
the song sparrow, the red-breasted grosbeak,
the pine warbler, and other birds common here
in Framingham. Then, too, the study of the
trees on the campus carried on in her classes,
valuable in itself, led to most practical results

Miss Grace BrowN GARDNER after the damage caused by the hurricane.
Records kept by these classes furnished con-

P crete proof of the extent of this damage.
Nantucket Beckons! Miss Gardner’s work in the teaching of science
extended from her own class room into the

J : ‘ ; | Jonathan Maynard School. Here at one time
At the end of the academic year in June, after she aided a group of boys in forming a Science
twenty-three years of service, Miss Grace Brown } Club, where anything that interested the boys
Gardner will retire from the faculty of the col- | from flowers to a duckhawik was discussed.
lege. | In Miss Gardner’s Nantucket home an herbar-
In 1918 Miss Gardner came to Framingham ium of over 1200 specimens of Nantucket plants,
as Dr. Meier’s assistant in the science depart- which she has collected and assembled, attests
| ment. Members of the college from 1918-1937 to her assiduous interest in botany. She has
will associate her with Room 30 in May Hall, also published several articles on the Botany of
the room directly at the right of the Assembly Nantucket. She is a member of the New Eng+#
Hall, whose sunny southern windows were land Biological Society and of the National |
always green with plants, whose board we Association of Biology Teachers.

|

always filled with an appropriate and interesting As much as the faculty and student body will
nature chart, and whose cabinets were alway} miss Miss Gardner’s participation in their
orderly. Present day students will recognize academic and social activities, they cannot help
these same attractive bulletin boards, and order- but appreciate that her longing to spend “whole
ly and interesting cabinets in Room 4 in Dwight winters in Nantucket” after years of absence }
Hall. deserves to be gratified. They know, as much }

Miss Gardner is one of the “old guard” at} as she will miss them, that she will be happy. |
| Framingham; that is, she is herself a graduate | She is an inveterate reader of fine books; she
of a normal school, a teacher for several years has a never-ending source of pleasure in look- |
in the grades and later in a high school, and ing at and adding to her stamp colllection; she |}
eventually a college woman. Born on the Island has innumerable friends in Nantucket. In}
of Nantucket, she received her elementary and response to an inquiry as to what she plans to
secondary education in its schools, except for do on retiring, with characteristically dry humor |
seven years when her father was a representa- and without a smile, she said, “I shall never give
tive from Nantucket to the Massachusetts legis- any more grades the rest of my life... . I think|
lature, and when she attended the Charles I shall cultivate my garden—and my figure.”
Sumner School in Roslindale. Later she gradu- In all her varied activities in the leisurely days |
ated with the Class of 1901 from the Bridgewater to come Miss Gardner’s Framingham friends |
Normal School. After several years of teaching, wish her true happiness. |
| her interest in botany led her to study at Cornell 4
| University, where she obtained the A.B. degree . b s, 4 oH F fi. a - rat ot
| in 1914, and at Brown University, where she | en rah ae reek bed s 4 Ro Sse Hubbard 1A Ritehe a)

ee et, is one of the directors of the re

ceperreeeees ae, in £915. cently organized Massachusetts Teach- | _ >t #3 3M; th St.

Miss Gardner's early teaching experience gave es’ Federation, formed for the purpose }
her the basic point of view for one of her unique of promoting the interests of school
contributions to students in her methods course teachers in Massachusetts,and partic-
in the Elementary Department—the practical ularly for bringing about the adoption
method of teaching science in the elementary of a proper teachers’ pension bill.
schools. Her earliest teaching occurred in an Hg - tts +
ungraded school in Siasconset on the Island of
Nantucket, during an interim in her study at
Bridgewater Normal School caused by her
father’s illness. ;

Fe 243

Injured in Motor Accident
in France.

The cable brought word Thursday
afternoon of -the serious injury of
Mrs. Edith G. Clark and Miss Grace
3rown Gardner in an automobile ac-
cident near Nice, France. Details
|were meagre, but stated that Mrs.
{Clark was the more severely injured,
as well as
i

Europe a few
an educational

THE NEW BEDFORD SUNDAY STANDARD-TIMES @ FEBRUARY 24, 1957

NANTUCKET WOMEN

jsuffering a fractured skull
| other injuries.

The ladies went to
lweeks ago to make
the summer months and
pleasant vacation.
of the |

tour during
anticipated a
( Mrs. Clark is the daughter
Rate George H. Gardner of Nantucket,
land is the widow of Eugene L. Clark.
She has two sons—Donald 5S. and |
Elliot G. Clark—who reside in Ash- |
land, She also has a sister |
| Alice, who is the wife of Frank Mur-

Mass.

dock. . L
Miss Gardner is the daughter of the |
late Arthur H. and Mary M. Gardner. |
|She is instructor in botany at the |
: “a
| Framingham Normal School. |
| Friends and relatives of the ladies
regarding

lare awaiting further news
| the accident with a great deal of con-

| cern. ly @ ; i

Grace Brown Gardner comes from a long line of Nantucketers; from the very earliest
of Nantucket’s history, one will find the Gardners taking an active part in community af-
fairs. She grew up on the island, and enjoyed a wonderful and interesting childhood.
Many Summers were spent at Quidnet, next to the shores of Sasachacho Pond and only
a stone’s throw from the open ocean. As a child, she collected a wealth of knowledge on
the flora and fauna of the island. Her father took an active part in the town government
and she was often an able assistant in time of reed. Reluctantly, Grace Gardner left the
island, but at the same time, began to study for her chosen profession, that of teaching.
She never ceased seeking knowledge, and by the time she was elected-¢ professor at the
Framingham State Teachers’ College, she was well prepared to train young girls for the
teaching profession. A few years ago, she retired, and returned to the scenes of her child-
hood, and the family homestead. Her home is furnished much ‘as it was ‘in the middle
1800’s. Miss Gardner didn’t seek retirement in a chair by the window, watching the rest
of the world go by. She has taken a vital interest in the life of the community. Her wealth
of knowledge on island history and folklore is readily shared with those who beat a path-
way to her door. During the past few years, Miss Gardner has catalogued clippings on all
subjects, from old island newspapers. It is an invaluable piece of work and will be given to
the Nantucket Historical Association for those interested in research on Nantucket.

enna = *

“GRACE BROWN GARDNER with some of the Nantucket historical vasceds
she has collected in her “retirement project”, Miss Gardner is a direct de-
scendent of Tristram Coffin, first settler.

Grace Brown Gardner, a
direct descendent of first set-
tler Tristram Coffin and own-

islander made:a profit of $500.”
The retired teacher who has

er of one of four Island homes
that has never been sold”

| Chuckles over Daniel Web-

ster’s visit to Nantucket.

| “Webster demanded $1000

ito come to th

important

case. The N
tucketer x ~

_. who hired him
if D. W. would try any
other cases, at no extra charse
When D. W. left Nantucket he
Me ll it Nz ticket he

aad earned $1500 and the

| VB.
‘The bab

e Island to try an|

‘““aught in every grade from
first through
lege” has compiled more than
80 folders of news stories and
photographs of Nantucket his- |
tory,

Her proudest piece is her
Grandmother Charlotte Coffin}
Gardner’s daily diary-of her
lvoyage to the Pacific with her
|seafaring husband. Miss Gard-
iner shared this diary with the
\Seattle Historical Society
which used it to make changes
in their records.

the senior col-

in The scro »~ book
4s “Ra lbh Warren’ Ferter
Covsin © ‘4 Grace B

Phe
cowh Gardner

Windy bn Ae

Su Fog
ees sees
Injured in Motor Accident
in France.

The cable brought word Thursday
afternoon of the serious injury of
Mrs. Edith G. Clark and Miss Grace
- @Brown Gardner in an automobile ac-
Ee cident near ~ Nice, »Prance- Details
were meagre, but stated that Mrs.
~ Clark was the more severely injured,
suffering a fractured skull as well as

other injuries.

_ The ladies went to Europe a few
weeks ago to make an educational |
tour during the summer months and |
anticipated a pleasant vacation.

Mrs. Clark is the daughter of the
tate George H. Gardner of Nantucket,

- and is the widow of Eugene L. Clark. }
She has two sons—Donald_S. and
Elliot G. Clark—who reside in Ash- |
land, Mass. She also has a sister |
Alice, who is the wife of Frank Mur- |

Ne
ites Gardner is the daughter of the
late Arthur H. and Mary M. Gardner. |

\She is instructor in botany at the |
, Framingham Normal School. |
| Friends and relatives of the ladies |
are awaiting further news regarding
the accident with a great deal of con-

| cern. To ly 61949

ve

—

HE NEW BEDFORD SUNDAY STAND,

NANTUCKET

Grace Brown Gardner comes from a long lin
of Nantucket’s history, one will find the Gardne
fairs. She grew up on the island, and enjoyed j
Many Summers were spent at Quidnet, next to th
a stone’s throw from the open ocean. As a child,
the flora and fauna of the island. Her father took
and she was often an able assistant in time of ne
island, but at the same time, began to study for
She never ceased’ seeking knowledge, and by thi
Framingham State Teachers’ College, she was w
teaching profession. A few years ago, she retired
hood, and the family homestead. Her home is fu;
1800's. Miss Gardner didn’t seek retirement in ;
of the world go by. She has taken a vital interest |
of knowledge on island history and folklore is re,
way to her door. During the past few years, Miss |
subjects, from old island newspapers. It is an inv
the Nantucket Historical Association for those ii

ae ; "
“The 5

1S “Ralph Warren Porter, a
“@ovsin e f Grace Deown Gardner

baby in the.

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 15. | GL} /

oe People have asked me what I find to 40 now or the
. €r that I have decided to get in touch pipe ype-
MOre ana answer that question at the same time.

ing procedure, omitting breakfast
inte three letters
Anitted on a sock ;
retur valled on one of my winter neighbors, Mrs- Shurne ghee
who n @ MOst @elightful book, privately printed bY ner ae
cba ne Of the rich Philadelphiea-Quakers. The book SiVes
charming deserintions-of-an old-time Quaker ehildhood in
Nantucket. °

Prepare@ ginner as follows:

Cold Ham
Sweet Potatoes Squash Cucumbers
Pickled Beets
Beach Plum Jelly
Cut-up Tomatoes with Sugar
Iced Coffee
Washed the dishes
Assisted (?) plumbers in standing radiators in their ap-
pointed places a la blue prints
Went down town and did the following errands: —
Library cards for cataloging my Nantucket books
Heavy manila envelopes in which to send interior
views of my house to Mrs Graves for use
; ctetttiGilndetiiGtinOrinnkeotase in Seattle
Mailed the above by registered) mail
Passed in two pairs of socks at the British Relief
and got more yarn
Had the jeweller mend the chain of my Oxford
glasses
Had two new batterys put in my flashlight
Called at the home of our local editor ra chat with
Ray, his aunt, a retired New Bedfom tkacher
Went to the Roberts House for supper

Quahog Chowder
Crackers
Fried Plaice Fish
Baked Potatoes Beets
Cloverleaf Rolls
Vanilla Ice Cream with Chocolate
Sauce
Nut Cake
Chocolate with
Whipped Cream
Played contract at the home of a retired private secre-
of Stone & Webster until ten-thirty
Had refreshments
Taxi home.
Bed

te

Cre s~boeR

mer REEL

Friendly Afternoon Group Heard |

Miss Grace Brown Gardner.

A capacity audience attended the |
recent Neighbors “Friendly Afternoon
with Old Nantucket,” in order to hear
Miss Grace Brown Gardner give an
account oi “A Voyage from Nantuck-
et "Round the Horn to California and
the West Coast in 1852, as Described
jin a Journal kept by the Captain’s
Wife, who was the First White Wo-
man to visit parts of the Washington
and Oregon Territories.”

The captain’s wife, Mrs. Charlotte
Coffin Gardner, grandmother of Miss
Brown Gardner, decided to
make the rather a
manner—but typical of the courage
and faith of the Nantucket women of

Grace

voyage in casual

this period. While visiting the ship
| Sarah Parker with her husband and

| the skipper, Captain William Bunker /|
Nan-

|Gardner, as the craft
tucket harbor one afternoon, ready
for its voyage to San Francisco the
next morning, Mrs. Gardner was in-
vited to make the trip.

After deliberating a few minutes,

lay in

Grandmother Gardner decided to go;

she had her 7-year-old son, George|
Henry, excused from school, and spent

the rest of the afternoon getting ready
tor a ‘three-year-voyage. The evening
was

in making farewell calls

on her friends.

spent

The trip down the East coast was
more or uneventful. Food
laundry occupied Grandmother’s

less and
at-
tention to a large extent (how history
repeats itself). Little George Henry
was having the time of his life; he
played happily on the deck, fished off
the stern of the vessel, or sewed on
the sails with a “palm” and a needle
made for him by the Of
course, bad weather was encountered,
but no damage was sustained.
Trouble started as they began the
hazardous trip around the Horn. Cold
weather set
and

sailors,

in, accompanied by fog,
gigantic raked the ship
|from stem to stern. The steward fell
from the rigging, being finally hauled

seas

aboard. The end of six weeks of heavy
weather, adverse winds and currents,
found the ship and men in a bad’ con-
dition, with scurvey beginning to show
itself in the crew,

On November 28, the Sarah Parker |

finally rounded the Horn, with better

A new crew was signed up and the
Sarah Parker sailed for Puget Sound,
|with stormy weather following her.
Seattle, called New York, but
|known also by the Indian name of
Alki, was reached. Here many Indians
met, much to the delight of
George Henry. Good food was enjoyed
also—fruit,

then

were

wild pigeons and

salmon. Strange sights were seen,

which included that of a young child |

having his head flattened in the In-
dian custom.

The Sarah Parker made
trips from San Francisco, but before
long, a house on shore was hired, and
George Henry was enrolled in school.
Soon Grandmother enteréd the follow-
ing terse statement in her journal—
“On August 4, little Arthur

|} born.” The baby Arthur grew up to
|] bee me the late Arthur H. Gardner,
|father of Gardner. He
an outstanding citizen of Nantucket,
numbering among accomplish-
ments the editorship of the Nantuck-

et Jour

several!

was

Miss became

his

val, selectman, town treasurer,
representative to General Court
and numerous offices of public trust.
On December 6, 1854, the ship put
out for home. She stopped at Pitcairn

the

’

for stcres; a wate.
but the voyage
pleasant. A

i the

pout was sighted,

back was generally
final entry appears in
“On May 10,
Arthur, and myself landed at
Nantucket.”

journal: George

Henry,

Th riginal journal was presented
Seattle

time ago, a

to the Historical Association
document that is

historical inter-

some
considered of great
est and value.

The interest of Miss Gardner’s de-

lightful talk was heightened by her }
introductien of several exhibits. These |

included: the chart of the voyage to
and from Nantucket; the sewing
presented
the

case
Grandmother Gardner by
engravings of her
grandparents; the palm presented by
the sailors to George Henry; and the
|;school medal presented to
mother when she

crew; steel

Grand
was fourteen years
of age.

The Neighbors thank Miss Grace
Brown Gardner for her valuable con-
tribution tothe success of the current
series of the Friendly Afternoons with
Old- Nantucket,

days ahead as they went up the coast |
ef South America, soon to feast them- |

selves with strawberries and green

peas. Grandmother found much to in-
terest her in the customs and dress of
the natives.

The ship was put in shape for he
cruise north to San Francisco, where
she anchored on January 30. Grand-
mother noted few women and children
in the streets, but many men. She
thought food prices to be very high,
as, of course, they were at that time. |
Cargo was discharged and the ship |

| auctioned off.

antucket

la TO
Suaday Feb AT ITA

Grace @ Brawa Gandn tr

Celebrated her G23
Birthday in her hesbit
Roo me Amen 4 hen ques
Was a Cevsin Gertncde
Pratt “hel a fciend Clana
Bartep whe cCametroes

Brida aw ater, V\ ass
he} jo her celebrate .

fresh |

Peay »

Miss GARDNER AMID HER Scrap Books.

eis 8

My Scrap Books

An Ever-Growing Collection of Historical Data

By GRACE BROWN GARDNER

In 1941 I retired from my life-work of teaching and came
back to live in the old family home in Nantucket. The house
was built in 1820 andis one of four of the older houses remaining
on the island whith have never been sold and which are still
occupied by descendants of the original owners.

Fo Ghat Bicthdays

Bro wt

Ga nda er"

ee ee te

Roland Bunker Hussey, for many years editor and publisher of The Inquirer and Mirror, was a summer resident of

’Sconset for most of his years of retirement.
his applications to ’Sconset life was his ‘

graph was loaned by Eleanor Buckingham of ‘

The

Gaturighta ( B.

Re . , ™>
2ENnN) @mins i ae

hildren aor Pemvoelt

qn ters Th his

GF pee) Shephene

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NB.

moa ad 2

4 3 \ Ing ima Shebherd
i

Kem eer Shepherd Was
a Ceneral héa

"

‘portable hen coop,”
‘Buckingham Palace,

He was an “amateur

d oF the

which he demonstrated as above.

(as he liked to term it), and among
The old photo-

Sra 26,1968

inventor,”

*Sconset.”

;

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by President Eisenhauer

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of Charles W.CotPyr oo
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4 hte ILE + Capt ed

Samvel COFFA

Daughter sf bydia D (Nge) Betthidge
Whe : ke pT ma sane (WNe in on S$ on

Nant cket.

Outing at Quidnet. The Men Folks Helped Celebrate.

Mrs. Elliot M. Brown entertained ty AY ok whist ee celebrated
the Skwiporz at: Wawpawdongo, MEAD Wee ce ast tg of
Quidnet, on Friday last. On their Milk sveak ; “ae OR salty
arrival the guests sat down toa de- RA Bix iy g. |
licious clam chowder, to which they A great Surprise was in store for the
did ample justice. The time was ladies when they corer the parlor at
spent in playing whist and hunting the ps: appointed for sg distribution
for Indian arrow heads, in which that of the Presents, for they saw their |
region is said to abound, and some Pte sig had an a i as) |
fine specimens were found. “A boun=*}}-244 stan ane SY wit Smiling faces,
tiful supply of ice cream, cake and and dressed te their best clothes and
fruit was served, after which the | boiled shirts, which they had sneaked
company left for town having had a out of the bureau drawers unbeknown
most delightful outing§ | to their **better halves.

“ | The tree, one of the handsomest
| from Miacomet, presented a beautiful
appearance, well laden with gifts both
useful and ornamental, and some **Just
for a joke.’’ An origina! poem by
Miss Grace B. Gardner, plainly de-
picting characteristic traits of each
member of the club, and affording
much merriment, was read by Mrs.
Helen Appleton. Refreshments were |
served, and it was early Sunday morn-
ing when the company dispersed.

Se ig ai i
tine NAR ,

| . . . Grace Brown Gardner is in
residence at the Cottage Hospital on
Nantucket. She is an avid reader. Before
moving into the Cottage Hospital, where
she is able to be up almost every day; she
|compiled about forty scrap books on
Nantucket, composed of clippings from
the local newspaper and arranged by

subjects. She qualifies as the leading
authority on Nantucket history. She
keeps in touch with many Framingham
people and they are faithful in writing to
her. This lovely lady has just celebrated

her ninety-sec¢ ynd birthday !

Mrs. Arthur E. Pratt, of aoe Ppa
Bridgewater, Mass., is spending the ne y
summer at 33 Milk Street. SS

i é Commonwealth
(LK STREET. Outstanding example of Nan- : Of Massachusetts

ket architecture. Built in 1820, this fine old Nantucket, ss
ne has always remained in the original family. PROBATE COURT
tured in Duprey’s “Old Houses on Nantucket”. 4
Ui | 47 Yo all persons interested in
Bais ee > the estate of Effie L. Pond late
of Nantucket in said County

2 deceased.
THE DENBYS A petition has_ been
presented to said Court for
/ probate of a certain in-
strument purporting to be the
’ M last will of said deceased by
Special Spring Values James K. Glidden of Nan-
tucket in the County of Nan-
tucket praying that he be
appointed executor thereof
‘s ithout giving a surety on his
TOWN — Unspoiled 1820 Coffin house. In hehe pp cdiaumm
; P a f ‘

owner’s family for generations. A truly special If you desire to object
house with large yard. Just available. thereto you or your attorney

tame a - | should file a written ap-

es } pearance in said Court at

GRACE BROWN GARDNER HOUSE at Nantucket before nine o’clock

Ik Street; situated on a very large lot; and | inthe forenoon on the eleventh

y offered unfurnished. day of April 1974, the return
PMH « 2 ; , day of this citation.

Witness, Jeremiah J.
Sullivan, Esquire, Judge of
said Court, this fifth day of
March 1974,

Historic Houses

an | 73 . we wy

Ige.
z rooms, original fireplaces, central heat Irene M. Smith, Register
great charm plus a generous lawn area. 3-14-3t

dsome historic home on Milk Street;

asking $100,000.

Effie fo na ba Sstd

a vey on 1974

,

Suddenly,
Hs Christmas!
May yours be the Meniest!
Patch and Delia Harts

Grace Brown Gardner is in
residence at the Cottage Hospital on
Nantucket. She is an avid reader. Before
moving into the Cottage Hospital, where
she is able to be up almost every day, she -

: compiled about forty scrap books on

8 Nantucket, composed of clippings from
the local newspaper and arranged by
subjects. She qualifies as the leading
authority on Nantucket history. She
keeps in touch with many Framingham
people and they are faithful in writing to
her. This lovely lady has just celebrated
her ninety-second birthday!

Mrs. Arthur E. Pratt, of
Bridgewater, Mass., is spending th
& summer at 33 Milk Street. aT

IPDS SS 5 RS PD

Commonwealth

' MILK STREET. Outstanding example of Nan- ia tkassnckudetd
tucket architecture. Built in 1820, this fine old Nantucket, ss
home has always remained in the original family. PROBATE COURT

‘ %. & ses ntucket”’. .
Featured in Duprey’s “Old Houses on Ne ucket Te Mi. cevidia indesested:in

econ Seen er 7 the estate of Effie L. Pond late

of Nantucket in said County

deceased.

A petition has_ been

presented to said Court for

probate of a certain in-
strument purporting to be the
| last will of said deceased by : Ae
'
}

Special Spring Values

James K. Glidden of Nan-
tucket in the County of Nan-

° ° é tucket praying that he be
Older Historic Houses appointed executor thereof
a ; yithout giving a surety on his
-@ TOWN — Unspoiled 1820 Coffin house. In Niet bos
owner’s family for generations. A truly special If you desire to object
house with large yard. Just available. thereto you or your attorney
a : | should file a written ap- s A
=e . ’ i are neal ‘our y
pearance in said Court at J
THE GRACE BROWN GARDNER HOUSE at Nantucket before nine o’clock | ' ‘

33 Milk Street; situated on a very large lot; and } in the forenoon onthe eleventh |
is being offered unfurnished. sae wary | day of April 1974, the return
' PNA « RIAZZ , day of this citation.

Witness, Jeremiah J.
sage Sullivan, Esquire, Judge of |
ge. | said Court, this fifth day of |

~_*- ae §

VyrgA. X9,197F Kien Sate Bee

3. Handsome historic home on Milk Street;
living rooms, original fireplaces, central heat
and great charm plus a generous lawn area.

ys asking $100,000.

March 1974.
Irene M. Smith, Register
3-14-3t

CPS

Effie Toned bassed
ns Pag on 1974.

A Y re g b ber on © (Before nenevelien)

a
~~

Formerly #4 West Sjlye~ St

A little house on Copper Lane, built in 1796; has
been beautifully restored and decorated, is very
well arranged and a delight to live with. On the
first floor there is a living room with hand-hewn
beams and corner posts, fireplace; a small, most
attractive dining room opening into a brick ter-
race; kitchen with dryer, washer, dishwasher,
electric range and frost-free refrigerator. There
is also a sleeping room with fireplace, bath with
tub and shower. On the second floor there is a
sleeping room with fireplace and large dressing
room and bath with fireplace. The whole house
is delightful. $55,000.

Cepber hane trom Gua hen

Se rere sl ™

Formerly HA Weet w/lye- SF

ne,

tte Atrt- BG rze- at APre

Cage Pie begs le

464 A little house on Copper Lane, built in 1796: has | at us . ; f
been beautifully restored and decorated, is very Vitti h sy > “Ghla,
well arranged and a delight to live with. On the PP of tha MOL ~ itn

first floor there is a living room with hand-hewn
beams and corner posts, fireplace; a small, most cS OOD Seng Ie tepte gts

attractive dining room opening into a brick ter- + -

race; kitchen with dryer, washer, dishwasher, or CCt 2.
electric range and frost-free refrigerator. There ‘

is also a sleeping room with fireplace, bath with

tub and shower. On the second floor there is a

sleeping room with fireplace and large dressing Kp) hy (nA
room and bath with fireplace. The whole house Kraue ve N lenny Ch

is delightful $55,000. ane Happy New Yeaw!

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Cobhen Ties trom Qua Ren Ra.

Cheighnas Cards from The Hann) Tornets —Aogeinen and Minter

4

Ds Zaye
i (hrislmas

| Forth from the gilded dome

died

Sankaty sends its greetings
That guards this isle of the sea
We are sending ours, too. ;

a We send our hearty greetings

lt's the merriest kind ol a Merry ( hristmas May all be well with thee

we are wishing you
| hat e é a

Mr. and Mrs. Harry B. Turner

3 Chestnut Street

rat Good Cheer f, al

Cx e awe a f ,

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ai 30 Miles from America BUTStill part ETTS 4

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IN BUT still part of UNITED STATES

SS eau ORO Te Rg eo F Se Ves
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LOVING
GREETINGS

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Dear Friends: PS KN ay. ee ee

With full hearts, we once more send greetings to our
friends for the holiday season.

This year we have in mind particularly our gratitude to
God for the many years of loving companionship with
Florence, who passed away on the 22nd of August at the age of
78. George and Florence had just celebrated their 48th
wedding anniversary. Until the very end, Florence was active
and interested in both events and people. Her death came
quickly in the Nantucket Hospital, following a heart attack.
Although her going was a great shock for us, she went as she
would have wished.

This photograph of George and Florence was taken in
July 1973.

Roberta had a good sabbatical year in Finland, returning
in the middle of June in time to be with her mother for a
month’s visit before returning to Richmond, Indiana. After her
mother’s death, she spent two weeks with her father in
Nantucket. She is now, once again, teaching full time as
chairman of the Political Science Department at Earlham
College.

In early July George had surgery done at Cape Cod
Hospital, which turned out to be less serious than we feared.
He has recovered well, and has appreciated visits from

members of his family, Ruth and Archie Seller of Oklahoma

and Helen Veeder of Kansas. He is planning at least for the
present to stay in his own home in Nantucket, and to
concentrate during this winter on finishing his manuscript on
the history of Quakerism in the Boston area.

In these times when the world is so troubled, we are
particularly glad for the gifts of friendship. May we know and
cherish one another in the spirit of God, which is eternal.

Y 7 George A. Selleck
we Va Roberta G. Selleck
17 Prospect St.

809'% College Ave.
Nantucket, Mass., 02554

Richmond, Indiana, 47374

Thanksgiving, 1973

Christmas 1972

Dear Friends:

Christmas again and we are stil] living
on the island. George is busy completing
his history of Boston Quakers, and Florence
is occupied with household duties. We are
both beginning to feel the ravages of age
and time, but in general we are well.

Roberta is enjoying a sabbatical year
in Finland, and will be there until late
next spring.

Our little Quaker Meeting meets each
Sunday, and is an inspiration and joy.

Best wishes for a happy Christmas
from your friends

George and Florence Selleck

17 Prospect Street
Nantucket, Mass. 02554

CHRISTMAS
1949

It's Christmas
at 17 Prospect St.
where the Sellecks
are wishing you the
Very Best for Christmas.
sw? 33 s Galas ae
cd 6 and Roberta

It's Christmas in’ Nantucket
esas oe

When VICTORY comes’
and the Lights

go on again

all over
the World
_NANTUCKET
will ever shine
forth with its spirit
of Friendliness

to man-kind

It's Christmas

at 17 Prospect St.

where the Sellecks

are wishing you the
Very Best for Christmas.

George, Florence

and Roberta

It's Christmas in Nantucket

er Q thie Of tial

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( as
is j WL tho UH TONG tid

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Und Chal ( b » tue wpecially
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( bial this eae 4 We oe pondung
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wo thinle ¢ a you

Cliud. your lace wilh OWL heanto

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*

ee Vi CTORY comes

and the Lights
go on again
all Over

the World

NANTUCKET
will ever shine
forth with its spirit
of Friendliness
to man-kind

CHRISTM As
1949

It's Christmas
at 17 Prospect St.
where the Sellecks
are wishing you the
Very Best for Christmas.

’ \ a Sys George, F lorence
It's Christmas in’ Nantucket and Roberta
mas <4 Sr .

i .

Y\ The Inquirer will continue ]
\. to seek all thatis best //
for the future of //
\\, Nantucket and in //
\ Ghe Mirror //
reflect the //
\ Islands //
\\ glorious fi
\\ Past | /

Greetings

rom

The COSULCNELS?

hen Mbtices. G. H. GARDNER, M. D.,| gyi)” TRE ; _ JOHN PASCUCCI
b pate! ’ Was Prominent Resident in Coburn-

a erapuate or J. & & L fj Pa i :
; ville District For 35 Years

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Nantucket, ss. - 2 | CHICAGO HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE F :
} z
mids ate oon. M5 ¥ Saat a. i = ; ; | John Pascucci, 63, of 54 Bridges
s< ; ™ | street, prominent Coburnville resi-}
'dent and father of Reserve Police

To the Next of Kin, and all Persons interested i "WOE
Estate of Agnes E. Bettridge, of aaboket, i OFFICE, - - MAIN STREET, ty
d : : i Officer Salvatore Pascucci, died last

said County, mi Ms ing:
Ra Seeker Gee NEXT WEST OF PACIFIC BANK, et i ight at
é , ; night at the Massachusetts General

HEREAS, Samuel C. Coffin, the Guardian of
es said Laem Dae presented his petition for ii. tert
exo esta rl eas ails petition for Ii. 5. oh i hospital, after a short illness.
$s e. : pata |
yen are hereby cited to appear at a Probate Court, aati iT Ay 7 Seay . aly, and had resided in Praming-
ry ee ebyclted to appear ata Probate Court ia | . Italy, and had resided in Framing-
rteen ay of May next, atten o’clock in the be ee ae f Pa | x j a coabe Temichis ca tapes te
: y 4] ‘ ; = th 5 to many residents as a, b
arber, but

forenoon, to show cause, if py ou
same should not be granted. pistes Dike Saeed ¢ PRE ° dete; | vigae SEs
Ve | ] P ; 3 retire rom active service several
: ‘ . ° th ns years ago.

And said Guardian is ordered to serve this Citati val + pe
by publishing the same once a week in the Sicetrer -. George H. Gardner, formerly : ;
: : | Besides his son he is survived by

and ees & beweppper printed at Nantucket, three of this town, died suddenly at his A
a : ‘ three daughters, Mrs. Sally Conti,

weeks successively, the last publication to be tw
days at least before said Court. x4 home in Brooklyn, N. Y., on the 18th $ . » iv J h
: { 4 - " rs. Josephine Tennaro ‘and Mrs.

Witness, THADDEUS C. DEFRI o . ‘
of said Court, this twenty-second day Ub Agel te inst. Dr. Gardner was born in Nan- , ae ' R i
the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty- icke : r Three years = , - 2 victigok plea ed rn
d eighty tucket, October 10, 1844 Three ye 4 - MAEVE
are icket, October 10, 1844. Three years b Be )| three granddaughters, and two
apl24—3t SAMUEL SWAIN, Register. of his boyhood were spent in Cali- 3 : grandsons, x
. E fornia, where he accompanied his AN “4 Prominent in the affairs of the
S ; Pr F parents in a voyage ‘‘Around the f§ - . de mae tt peonte 40 Comair,
WaMu &j ‘ a : Horn’’ in the early fifties Return- } - ns Ook ete ve plage stG
r “ at, sete eatty s. OR he rs ’ ! j - the’ Columbus society, and Framing>, |
Was WwW h 3 | ind ing home an z= 05 > complete { 7 || ham aerie, 894, Fraternal Order of |
fieti lick | education in the ic schools ye Eagles. Friends may pay their last
fi ene in Wihalinc . a gla his late home, 54 Bridges
; ‘ 2 Mie ' ; street, ida
M useum ; ee photograph business, which he - i Gra ceé Bre wn & ardan er noon and pe She ‘epi’ abe
¥ se owed for a number of years. : as) ter) FP The funeral wil
; Be fo: 1 Bhs , ? : ill occur Sunda: =
y he 4 {3 O« ; ii Deciding later to take up the ; j Ge efnede Ad re hint \ Pratt | ternoon from his late home prep
° q } : Ber Cn on " of medicine, he entered the Chicago Ea iTh M . (Ce Ts) Torte - }} ) a Spe hy, ravers ah oe
Ti Ile NOT Sapp KIM Homoeopathic Institute, from which Chae M.Ce PPS ns Bara in iv iddleboro. Baia ad ron, ame
f ary De Nisa tistad «3 an a tithe as sro ltens gas a mily lot in
gon exhi yy a i vie aR sity ee ni re é fe " Bs a Mas St.-Tarcisius’ ta eh with funeral
practice in Baltimore, Md., but subse- : F 1geMen charge of Eugene
quently came North and settled in

NX hy 1 Nantucket, where he followed his pro-
i fession for a number of years, during
| f he as town

subsequently learnec

~

several of which served
| ay physician. Some ten years ago he
; wi Bw removed to Everett, Mass., where he
continued to practice until his re- |
moval to Brooklyn, about three years

ATi
+ ab
owe

ago.

He had been graduaily failing in |

bax =i on
Lato

health for some time, but was around }

as usual the day before his death.

ee

faamuS LUMEN

} He leaves a widow, and one brother,
Arthur H. Gardner, of this town.

Benefit of the Memorial Fund, His remains were brought here Mon- || . bye ‘

—
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d RE RE é |
The Life of Tristram Coffyn-- Photo- Gay 20r INLEY MEN byes sctevaneeenh. |
graphs of ye ancient family of CECI ipnasipidckoll

Portledge -- Hector Coffin Coat
- . ‘ww

of Arms,

Under the auspices of the Executive Committee of

' \ the Tristram Coflin Reunion Association, has been
compiled a life of Tristram Coffyn, together with
reminiscences and anecdotes of some of his numer-
ous descendants, and some historical information
>» concerning the ancient families named Coffyn. Price,

$i.
Photographs of eight ancient oil portraits of dif-
ferent members of the Coflin family of Portledge, in
North Devon, England, the originals of which were
mostly executed in the sixteenth century, are also
for sale. Price for the set, $1.50.
Also, the Coffin Coat of Arms, printed from the
identical copper plate used by Captain Hector Cof-
fin in his lifetime, which is a fine specimen of copper-
plate engraving, and answers in general description ;
to the Coat of Arms granted Admiral Sir Isaac Cof, Synz + . ha : ? V1) + .
fin, Bart, in 1804. Price, Lggpate. OR VY AS eee ZY IMariyn Ce
The above can be obtained of Miss Amelia Coffin, Le 5 } ~~ _ yh ~
4g Nenoyate d by he Ig rDh='7] 4 Wy
{ af }

csold te Wrs. Nelley,ewncee ine

f Fy 4

store on Lower Pearl street, and also at the oflice of
the secretary. The proceeds to be devoted to the
Tristram Coflin Memorial Fund.
ALLEN COFFIN, ; a
Secretary T. C. R, A.
7 . ree

who is a member of the Executive Committee, at her
TT]
t)

Jy2

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WR eA

Giviude Pratt Rese tubbs rol

*“SCONSET

ID you ever hear of "Sconset, where there’s nothing much

but moors,

And beach and sea and silence and eternal out-of-doors,

Where the azure round of ocean meets the paler dome
of day,

Where the sailing clouds of summer On the séa life melt
away,
And there’s not an ounce of trouble
Anywhere ? ;

Where the field larks in the morning will be c gs as thé ser

With the whisper of the moor-wind a neat
Where the little shingled houses down at ti ae
Are grey with salt of sea winds, and the strong sea’air’ is sWeet

With the flowers in the dooryards; me f@r.tl@fe! >

— Bliss Catman

Courtesy of “*Life”” (
«

In Days of Yore — ’Sconset, 1860 ’Scons i OLD PUMP, SIASCONSET.

The Old Howses of Broadway, *’Sconset

“AULD LANG SYNE” ON BROADWAY IN SIASCONSET VILLAGE.
Photo by Dorothy Webster.

The illustration for October on the Inquirer and Mirror’s calendar is of “Auld Lang Syne,” on Broadway, in the village of Siasconset. This
ancient structure has a tradition of being built in 1675, and this would give it the title of ‘the oldest house on the island. It was for years owned
by Capt. Edward C. Joy, and it is said that his grandson, Micah Coffin, used it as his fishing headquarters, employing Indians to do the actual
fishing. The heirs of Coffin and Gorham Coleman owned it for years, In 1 a by ‘onathap ieelts entire appearance is one of

great age. The chimney is squat and heavy, end. iis feays exe ct yacied, ve time the f loor nd three*worn-out key holes.

we

BROADWAY IN ROSE TIME, “SCONSET, NANTUCKET ISLAND, MASS

Fides =
pe :

ora, 2

: a =
| The Siasconset Casino was complet-
'ed in 1900, thus creating an

jasset to the village
in summer activiti

| *

‘SCONSET.

Some talk of the air of the hills,
And some of that of the plain,
But give me the air of 'Sconset dear,
Which knows no wind-break far or near;
It sweeps o’er seas three thousand wide

rs, it’s h 2 again.
To reach our moors, it’s home

ome talk of the inland lakes,
And some of the forest stream,
But give me the main at ’Sconset dear
In stormy

mood, when breakers rear,
Spit angry spumeand churn the sand,

While the wind and the sea-birds scream.

; a AF
The monarch we own is the gale,

But sway he will often resign,
Then give me the calm of 'Sconset dear.
His daughter rules by love, not fear,

For she eases stress with a balmy breath,

Then inspires with a kiss benign,

So, Hail to Sconset! Royal land;

Your crown is green on a golden band
Your collar’s of white-horses’ teeth;
Your tabard’s the brown shoals beneath;
Your watery mantle’s sparkling blue,
Or grey with fog, but ever new

orang ee
Wind of ‘Sconset.
Pat g ree.
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You seize the sweets of the year. wy,
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The lilac bends her stately ne ; ee
The brown moors thrill to your Beet
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ly Bridge at ‘Sconset early in this century.

Ruth Everitt Cable TV Program
In May 18

Nantucket Cablevision announécd today
the appointment of Ruth Everitt as
Program Director for Channel Three on the
Island, according to John Welch. With this
appointment the presentation of regularly
scheduled live programming from Channel
3 will begin on Friday, May 18, at a time
to be announced.

Plans for future programming include a
daily ‘“What’s Happening on Nantucket” to
be presented each evening to inform
visitors and local residents alike, as to
recreational and entertainment activities
offered on that particular day, as well as
suggestions on “what to do” while Visitin g
Nantucket. This information will be slanted
for the summer visitor who may have never
realized the scope of activities available on
the Island.

Interviews with visiting celebrities to the
Island and Panel discussions over
controversial issues will be offered,
education programming for drama and the '
arts, and timely subjects of interest from
gardening to transcendental meditation.

Anyone interested in programming
should telephone Ruth Everitt at 228-2008

to make arrangements for scheduling.
Pi SOE ORS

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Cable vision for ‘Sconset probable
The officers of The Siasconset ’ vic
Association have been working for some
time to bring Nantucket Cablevision Corp.
service to the east end of the Island. In

order for NCC to justify the economics of
going so far out of town, it had to have a
guarantee of 200 basic subscribers in
Siasconset.

Thanks to a number of public spirited

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of Polpis. pease nar jaa tin ig al Liberty Street. Mr, Davidson took local and off island community members,
the property of Soe = Cree andere ge oe ie the collateral Promised to date toward the
these photos for the Tow r . : Cte mon _ guarantee has been so Promising, that NCC
rag % : has been given the OK to Proceed ‘‘full
speed ahead’. It is expected that an
agreement will be signed within the next
few days and Cable-TV could become a
reality in "Sconset by the end of June.

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TWILIGHT AT SIASCONSET.

Across the turnpike darts the wary quail,

The swallow circles sportively on bizh,
And wrapt in dreams the misty pastures lie,

While crickets chirp ronnd mossy stone and

rail.

Long strips ot bery! through the distant trail,
And with the rose and turquoise richly vie,
Till all is sottly blurred from earth to sky,

And deepéning shadows o’er the landscape sail.

Through the still twilight’s dim and misty folds
Pulses the plaintive wailing of the loon
On lonely moors with heather blowing free.

And o'er the sunset’s lingering pinks and golds
The slim red sickle of the harvest-moon
Drops through night’s starry silence to the Cc

sea.
R. K. MUNKITTRICK.

—Harper’s Weekly Oct. 15, 1892.

a ae a eS SS SP LS

Rainwater, gathered in hogsheads placed under
roof gutters, was sufficient for the needs of the
fishermen. It did not, however, serve the needs
of the families. In 1776, a collection was taken,
and funds adequate for sinking a forty foot well
were realized. Located in Pump Square, this well
supplied the water needs of ’Sconset for more
than a hundred years. Also, it leant its name to
the only daily newspaper printed on Nantucket,
“The ’Sconset Pump.” The pump is not in use
today, but the Square is a focal point of the village aoe
as many narrow roads converge there.

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‘No Seats for the Mi hty of Wharf Ral Club

The fame of Nantucket's
Wharf Rat Club, which is de-
voted to nothing more weighty
than good companionship and
good talk, has spread over a
large part of the world during
the past several decades,
thanks to—its- unique burgee—
a pipe-smoking white rat ram-
pant on a field of blue. This
pennant has fluttered from
proud mastheads in most of the
world's chief ports—even unto
Little America—as globe-trot-
ting members carry it with
them wherever they go. The
Wharf Rats are at one and the
same time one of the most
democratic and most exclusive
societies extant. You dont
have to have a dime to be in-
vited in, yet you couldn't buy
your way in with $1,000,000.
Membership is by invitation
only and anybody who has the
time to spend a few hours per|
day on Nantucket's Old North)
Wharf is eligible.
First requisite, of course, is that you
love Nantucket. Second, perhaps,
that you appreciate a good “gam."
The club was born in the salty atmos-
phere of this Old North Wharf store.
Members refer to each other as
“rats.” ''Rats'’ pictured here, left to
right, Boston's retired City Clerk
Wilfred J. Doyle, Commodore Her-
: bert H. Coffin and playwright Austin
The big days on the Wharf als chai Strong. Coffin and Strong are now
are those on which the island steamer brings decomee
another “rat” back to the island. As the
steamer docks, the "rats" on Old North
Wharf fire three salutes from their little can-
non and run up the signal: "Welcome, Rat!"

Pry Vr vy

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Here's a typical Wha -
sion, just some relaxing conversation
under ideal conditions on a beautiful
Summer day.

}to be driven about a mile to

Fire razes Miacomet Golf Club

Flames roared through the club house at
the Miacomet Golf Club early Monday
morning completely destroying the one-
story, wooden building.

The fire was discovered by Ralph
Marble, owner of the property, located off
Somerset Road, when he arose at 5:30 a.m.
Marble telephoned an alarm to Central Fire
Station after he happened to look out a

‘window of his house some distance from

the club house and saw a tongue of flame
burst out of a window.

Fire Chief Irving T. Bartlett dispatched
three fire trucks and a tank truck to the
scene but by the time they arrived the fire
had spread rapidly and the entire structure
was ablaze. Fanned by a westerly breeze,
the club house burned to the ground within
a half an hour. The only thing left standing
was the chimney.

There was no water supply in the
immediate area and the fire apparatus had
the nearest
hydrant to refill water tanks. The nearest

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the flames reached either oil or rubber and
sent up a dense black cloud of smoke that
could be seen for miles.

Because of the early morning hour there
were only a few townspeople who were
awake and heard the alarm so there was no
crush of cars in the area roads. As the word
spread around about the fire later in the
morning there was a continous run of cars
through the day to the scene with people
who were amazed to learn of the
destruction of the club house.

Fire Chief Bartlett said the cause of the
blaze was undetermined and he declined to
estimate the amount of the loss. Mr.
Marble said he had people in the club
house up until 11 o’clock the previous
evening and all day Sunday. He said he
thought the fire could have been caused by
the careless disposal of a cigarette.

Mr. Marble said the loss was
considerable and he could not set a definite
amount. He said he had stocked the club
house with golfing goods to sell this

summer and that recently a new heating
system had been installed. There was no
fire insurance on the building nor on its

=| hydrant was on the Hummock Pond Road
feiin front of the John Topham house and
})some trucks made the trip to refill two or

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three times.

Foam was spread around the base of the
burning building and this kept the fire from
spreading through the grass. At one time

contents according to Mr. Marble.

nofficial estimates place the probable loss
at between $10,000 to $15,000. If was the
first major fire of the year.

' Nantucket Sons and Daughters
{gf Hold Annual Reunion.

One hundred and ninety-four Nan-

| tucketers and adopted Nantucketers |
|assembled at the rooms of the Twen-

tieth Century Club on Joy street,
Boston, last Wednesday evening, for
the annual Nantucket reunion. Many
of those in attendance went up from
the island to join their friends and ac-
quaintances in this annual jollification,
when the islanders get together to re-
/new friendships and greet one another
;in a real Nantucket gathering.

The “Sons and Daughters of Nan-’

tucket” is an association that is
unique in many respects. There is no
other association like it and for more
than three decades it has held these
annual gatherings in Boston. Each
year the number in attendance has in-
creased and interest in the association
j has not lagged, in spite of the fact
j that many of those who were instru-
mental in its organization away back
in 1894 and had worked hard and
faithfully during the early years. of
its existence, have passed on. An at-
tendance of 194 this year was very
gratifying.

To many the most enjoyable part of
| the reunion is always the social hour,
| when the Nantucketers have their

annual get-together meeting and greet
friends and acquaintances many of
| whom they. have not seen for a year
fand often years. The opening of the
social hour is always set at 5:30 but
each year there are some on hand a
half-hour earlier just to be sure and
not miss anyone. Much of the “hello”
and “how-are-you” starts down in the
cloak rooms, to be continued in the
rooms above as one by one a new ar-
rival is recognized and welcomed.

There is no reception committee at
the Nantucket reunions—no need of
| one— for everybody takes it upon
|himself or herself to be a reception
committee of one and to wander
|around and see who else there is. to
chat with.

The parlors of the Twentieth Cen-
| tury Club are not large enough#for a

crowd of nearly two hundred who
| want to move around a lot and many
| persons were grouped out in the hall,
|but there was just as much “get-to-
gether” out there as in the parlors
| and everybody appeared to be having
|a good time and making the best of
the jam, with not a “wall-flower” any-
| where.

| At 6.80 o’clock came the call to go
into the dining room and soon the |
| party was ‘seated around the tables, |
still chatting and continuing the

social part of the evening as long as i

i

possible. k

chair was

Tied to the back of each
a string which held

| colored balloon floating around in the |

| air, making a very pretty effect.
When all were at their places, the
| president, Miss Agnes Bettridge, rap-
ped with the historic whale-tooth
gavel, and requested all to stand for|
a brief moment with bowed heads |
for the usual “silent blessing.” :
Then she asked the gathering to |

|

| car’
all

| mittee

| There’s a dear little isle swept by
wind and by wave
That’s a wee bit of Heaven to me.
It’s flower sprinkled moors trod by
squaw and by brave
Oft are pictured in fond memory.
There are lakes where are mirrored
the clouds in the sky

and clear.
I will love, love, love it ’till I die,

’Tis my Old Nantucket Home, ever #5

dear.
There’s a church on the hill with a
bell that peals the hours
On that dear little isle of the sea.
There are old-fashioned gardens wit
sweet scented flowers
That renew childhood memories to
me.
| There’s a tang in the air that wealth
could never buy
and clear.
I will love, love, love it ’till I die,
*Tis my Old Nantucket Home ever
dear.
Chorus:
As the bell in the steeple rings
Ding dong, ding dong,
| A theme in my memory sings
i Ding dong, ding dong,
1I will love, love, love thee ’till I die,
My Old Nantucket Home ever dear. |

Miss Bettridge called attention to|
the cards which were at each plate |
jand requested that they be filled out
at once, or while the supper was be-
ing served. The party then paid at-
itention to the following menu:

Fruit .Cup
Fillet of Beef, Mushroom Gravy
Franconia Potatoes
Squash String Beans
Celery and Olives
Lettuce Salad, Russian Dressing
Banana Fritters
Macaroons and Orange Ice Cream

Cake Coffee

The cards were collected, showing
the total of 194 present, and the sec-
retary, Miss Mildred Brooks, then
“called the roll”, each person stand-
ing when his or her name was called.

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h Por
81, 1927, to November 1, 1928.

Miss Brooks, the secretary, then |

read her report of the reunion of
1927, which was, as usual, very en-

tertaining and received with loud ap- |
plause. Her report was accepted, the
president stating that she felt the

There are stretches of beach white association owed Miss Brooks a vote |
of thanks for her very efficient work |
opinion was |

secretary, which
shared by the assembly.
The report of the treasurer, Philip
A. Myrick, was next in order, his re-
t covering the period from October
The
report showed the association to be |

Mr. Myrick referred to the “Sons and

Daughters” as a “growing and going
organization”,
new members had joined since 1925.

announcing that 72

Miss Sue Wyer Haggerty made a

report for the nominating committee,
offering the following officers for elec- |

tion for the coming year:

President—Miss Agnes E. Bettridge. }
Secretary—Miss Mildred H. Brooks. |
Treasurer—Philip A. Myrick.
Vice-Presidents—Mrs. Alice Saw-|
yer, Mrs. Jean Marion, Clarence}
Edward Alley, Mrs. Lilian C. Bridg- |
ham, Max Wagner, Miss Florence |

Worth.

It was voted that the secretary cast |
one ballot for the officers as presented
by the nominating committee, which
was done. This disposed of the busi-
ness of the meeting. :

The president then called upon
David J. Maloney, “a lawyer, a former
member of the legislature and an
adopted son of Nantucket.” Mr.
Maloney took for his text the song
“My Island Home”, referring to the
fact that his first visit to the island
was made in a 70-mile breeze. He said

- William -F. Macy, president of the
Nantucket Historical Association, was |
then asked to make a brief statement
regarding the proposed whaling
museum. Always an _ entertaining
speaker, Mr. Macy had his audience
with him. He queried if the gather-
ing knew what was the most impor-
tant year in Nantucket’s _ history.
“Tf you don’t know, I’ll tell you—or
I’m going to tell yer, as the late Al
Smith said. It was the year 1894,
for in that year the Sons and
Daughters and the Nantucket His- |
torical Association were both start- |

- ed.”
in a very gratifying financial condi- |

tion with a balance in the treasury
There is health in each breath fresh of $766.84 on the first of November. |

He then outlined the growth and
accomplishments of both associations
during the last three decades, claim- -
ing that no other town has two such
active organizations as Nantucket.
“It is a remarkable thing,” said Mr.
Macy, “that this island can get out
nearly two hundred year after year
for this reunion.”

He referred to the good work which
the Historical Association has done
and will continue to do for the com-
munity, touching briefly upon several }
branches of activity—the museum, the |
preservation of the Old Mill and the
Oldest House, etc—and then calling
attention to the proposed whaling
museum. Already $31,000 has been }
pledged towards this project, but a
few thousand more will be needed be-
fore the property can be secured, and
then a few thousand more to put it |
in shape. :

Mr. Macy told of the conditions of |
the will of the late Admiral Folger, |
by which the Historical Association is |
to become residuary legatee after the |
death of the testator’s daughter, which

| would mean that some time the asso- |

ciation will receive a large amount }

|from Admiral Folger’s estate. Under |

he was really inspired to see such a|
gathering of men and women “who

the terms of the will, the money is to |
be used for the constructioén of a

To many, this is one of the most en- Jove an island that no one can help | new museum building of a type similar

tertaining features’ of the reunions;
for it affords opportunity to recognize)
y name a person or persons who

b
looked familiar but could not be

identified during the crush of the
social hour.

loving”. He interspersed his remarks
with some amusing stories and re-
ferred to Nantucket’s hospitality and |

to the Coffin School and the land to |
be purchased for the whaling museum,
extending from North Water to Beach

the cordial welcome always extended jstreets, would offer an admirable lo-

the_ visitor.
preciative, he said, of the reception

He was. especially ap-Jcation for the project.

He asked the audience to draw a

At the conclusion of the roll call, accorded him, and felt that he was|mental picture of the future, with a|
the president again rapped for order now entitled to become an “adopted|ciyic center near the junction 3:04
and made a brief address of welcome Nantucketer”, so intended to join the|Broad and North Water streets—the

to the sons and daughters of Nan- |
tucket and to “the poor off-islanders |.

“Sons and Daughters”.
he gathering was then asked to}

new Historical Building and Whaling
Museum on one side and the new

who are with us this evening”, and | sing another of the songs on the pro- Town Hall building on the Sanford

who have become “one of us by)
g tion.”
Be then called attention to the

attractive menu cards, each of which |
bore a piece of sea-moss gathered at

Nantucket last summer. She asked

that each person retain one of the
ds for reason to be explained later
jin the evening.

Miss Bettridge referred briefly to |
the custom of having some little sou- |
venir at each plate, stating that the |
executive committee would appreciate
any suggestion that might be offered |
for use in years to come.

She stated that each year the com-
sent invitations
people who had come to the

to young}
mainland |

gram—‘“Our Island Home,” written by
Miss Bettridge to the tune of “Keep
The Home Fires Burning”, as follows:
Here’s a cheer for Old Nantucket

For her Sons and Daughters true,
And for those who by aduption are

| Her Sons and Daughters too.

Let us make it loud and lusty

For we'll always loyal be,

And we'll “boost” for Old Nantucket
Thirty miles out in the sea.

Refrain: e
Keep the home fires burning
Where our hearts are turning,
For we love the sandy shores
Where breakers roar.

We'll be ever fonder
Tho’ afar we wander,
And we'll always be true blue
To Our Island Home.

property recently purchased by the
town from the Killen estate.

At the conclusion of Mr. Macy’s re-
marks, Miss Grace Brown Gardner
arose and said that she thought the

Sons and Daughters could well afford
to have a share in the whaling muse-
um and moved that a sum not to
exceed $100 be taken from the}
treasury and added to the whaling
museum fund. d

The suggestion met with favor and |
lit was so voted. The treasurer soon
ll after handed a check for the stated
| amount to Mr. Macy, who acknowl-
| edged it with: “Sons and Daughters,
I thank you.” Three rousing cheers

Miss Molly Foss, daughter of Sam |
Walter Foss, the poet, read several |
ections fr her father’s poems, |
5 d—the selections from her \
a rad er eo pingg Meas ;receiving enthusiastic applause from |
isses Do ; :
the audience.
and Marion Ramsdell. os bea -

join in singing the following. song, !
“Tis My Nantucket Home”, written
by Mrs. Lilian Bridgham to the tune
of “My Grandfather’s Clock.”

were then given for Mr. Macy and the
whaling museum, led by Philip Myrick. }

t
for study, inviting them to attend the |
reunion as guests of the association.

NT.

Miss Bettridge next called upon /

|Gleason Archer, Esq., dean of the |

{Suffolk Law School, who is a direct
{descendant of Thomas Mayhew who |

| card, then,” said Mr. Myrick.

bought Nantucket for forty pounds |
-| away back in 1641.

He gave an inter- |

esting resume of Mayhew’s life and
activity in relation to the islands of |
Nantucket and Marthas Vineyard,
which was received with due appre-
ciation by his audience.

Miss Foss then recited two more of
her father’s poems—“Jacob’s Whis-
kers” and “The House by the Side of
The Road”, the latter undoubtedly the |
most familiar of Sam Walter Foss’s |
poems.

At this point Philip Myrick called |
, attention to the menu cards and the |
| pieces of Nantucket sea moss in the
}upper corner of each card. Some in-
| teresting designs appear, he said, but
'there was one in particular which was
to be the lucky card. Mr. Myrick
referred to the custom of marking |
one of the little souvenirs at the plates
each year, the holder of the mark re-
|ceiving the prize. Last year one of !
| the little bells was different from the
others, This yeaz-it-is the mvss on the
menu \card, he said. He asked all to
examine their cards closely and see if
there was not one with the moss
shaped like a Teddy bear. For a mo-
ment or two there was no response, |
but everybody had an expectant look. |
Finally a lady held up her card—it |

|

had the sea moss which resembled a |
Teddy bear. To make more positive
that she held the lucky menu card, Mr. |
| Myrick asked her to examine the cen- |
ter fold and see if she saw anything |
there.

“Yes, there is a small pencil mark |
there,” was the reply.

“You hold the right Teddy bear |

|

“Tf you |

| will come forward you will receive the |
} prize.” He then presented her with a |

|
‘|\ter Road, Cambridge.

|| was

copy of Mr. Macy’s new book, “The
Story of Old Nantucket.” The lady
who fortunately held the card was
| Mrs. Frances Caldwell, of 15 Lancas-
The last number on the program
“a voyage around Nantucket
(island with Butler Folger.” Mr.
[ Folger was introduced by the presi-
| dent as one of Nantucket’s “town
| fathers” as well as the skipper of the
sight-seeing bus which makes the
40-mile trip around the island during
the summer months. Mr. Folger, be-
fore commencing the cruise, referred
briefly to the fact that Nantucket is |
now a thriving community, bustling |
with activity and with a number of
new civic developments under way.
He then took his audience on the 40-
mile trip, condensing his descriptions |
about the historic spots seen in mak- |
ing the journey to the west and east |
ends, and giving an idea of what he |
talks about in entertaining his pas- |
sengers and making sure that they get |
their money’s worth.
At the conclusion of Mr. Folger’s
, remarks the gathering stood ana sang
the following song, “My Native Tsle”,
written by the Rev. W. D. Woodward
to the tune of “America”.

q

| gathering

My native island, thee,

| Anchored far out to sea,

Thy name I love.
Thy skies of clearest blue,
Thy sea of emerald hue,
Thy far off ocean view,
My spirit move.

;
On old Nantucket’s shore
Where breakers loudly roar
I oft did stand,
And dreamed fair
dreams
Mid golden sunlight gleams
Or silver moon’s bright beams,—
God close at hand.

youth’s young

|
Youth’s happy days are gone,
Man’s sterner years have come,
With weight of care.
Yet somehow peaceful rest
Becomes my welcome guest
As at mem’ry’s fond behest
I breathe thy air.
God bless our native isle,
Favored with God’s own smile,—
His heaven’s blue.
Strong sons, and daughters fair,
Now scattered everywhere,
Be this our common prayer,—
God keep us true.

This ended the annual reunion of
the Sons and Daughters for 1928 and |
after another round of chatting,
reminiscing and hand-shaking the
gradually broke up, all
looking forward the reunion of
1929.

Those attending the reunion were
the following:

Mrs. Elizabeth P. Additon.

Mrs. Helen Folger Appleton.

Mrs. Leila Macy Appleton.

Royal C. Appleton.

Gleason L. Archer.

Miss Sarah E. Arnold.

Miss Emily G. Babb.

Mrs. Caroline Clark Barney.

Edward Mitchell Barney.

Major-General M. H. Barnum.

Miss Anna E. C. Barrett.

ry sarrows.
1 S. Bartlett.
A. Bartlett.
Bartlett, Jr.
Miss Agnes E. Bettridge.
Mrs. Ellouise Eldredge Black.
Miss Mary H. Borden.
Mrs. Louise D. Boudrot.
Miss Dorothy Boyer.
Sherwin P. Boyer.
Mrs. Lilian Clisby Bridgham.
Herbert P. Brooks.
Mrs. Josephine S. Brooks.
Miss Mildred Howland Brooks.
Mrs. Mary Brown.
Melvin W. Brown.
Miss Alice Macy Bunker.
Mrs. Emma P. Bunker.
Miss Eleanor Burdick.
Miss Eva Burdick.
James M. Burdick.
Charles E. Burgess.
Miss Mildred C. Burgess.
William M. Burgess.
Mrs. Edith F. Caldwell.
Mrs. Frances F. Caldwell.
Joseph A. Campbell.
Mrs. Louise D. Campbell.
Mrs. Mary Gardner Cary.
Miss Annie C. Carstensen.
Miss Laura E. Cashman.
Mrs. Carolyn Chadwick.
Charles C. Chadwick.
Mrs. Mary Brown Chadwick.
Edward W. Chadwick.
Anthony Champney.
Mrs, Elizabeth B. Chapman.
Mrs. Edith Gardner Clark.
Henry B. Coleman.
Mrs. Clara Bartlett Collins.
Andrew B. Coon.
Mrs. Ella B. Coon.
Miss Sarah L. Day.
Mrs. Marjorie Folger Drake.
Mrs. Helen Coleman Dyer.
Wyman Dyer.

to

William M.

Mrs. Emma M. Eldredge.
Heman Eldredge.

James M. Farnum.

Miss Mary Farnum.

Miss Anna Gardner Fish.
Miss Charlis H. Fishback.
Mrs. Sarah Smith Fishback.
Miss Alice R. Fisher.

Miss E. Bertha Fiske.

Miss Elizabeth C. Fitzgerald.
J. Butler Folger.

Mrs. Anne Folsom.

Mrs. Evelyn M. Folsom.
Richard W. Folsom.

| Roy D. Folsom.
wy

fiss Grace Brown Gardner.
James Howard Garnett.
Mary J. George.

Miss Charlotte N. Giffin.
Mrs. Mary Brown Giffin.
Mrs. John W. Grout.
Arthur B. Guptill.

Mrs. Edith Mansfield Guptill.
Miss Sue Wyer Haggerty.
Mrs. Mary O’Connell Haines.
Mrs. Amelia A. Hall.
Charles T. Hall.

Miss Lucie Hamblen.

Mrs. Floss E. Hardy.
Willard P. Hardy.

Mrs. Inez Scott Harlow.
Arthur C. Hayden.

Mrs. Bertha L. Hayden.
Miss Florence A. Hayden.
George B. Heaton.

Arthur W. Jones.

Mrs. Edith Worth Jones.
Frank M. Jones.

Mrs. Lizzie A. Hussey Jones.
Mrs. Ida Andrews Jordan.
Captain B. Whitford Joy.
Mrs. Mary Davis Brown Kent.
Mrs. Beatrice Smith Killen.
Mrs. Kate G. Lamson.

Mrs. L. Frances Latham.
Mrs. Emma A. Lingham.
Mr8. Ina Robinson Lithgow.
Mrs. Myra B. Lord.

Mrs. Alice Wellington Lyman.
Huram W. Macy.

Mrs. Maude Thomas Macy.
William F. Macy.

David J. Maloney.

Mrs. Jean Cartwright Marion.
F. Schuyler Mathews.

Miss J. M. Maynard.

Mrs. Constance H. Murdock.
George F. Murdock.

Miss Evelyn F, Murray.
Mrs. Marianna A. Murray.
Mrs. Bessie M. Myrick.
Mrs. Frances D, Myrick.

G. Allen Myrick,

George H. Myrick.

Harrison D. Myrick.

Philip A. Myrick.

Mrs. Cassine Brown Nelson.
Oscar H. Nelson,

Mrs. Laura L. Newhall.
Mrs. Caroline H,, Nicholson.

Mrs. Minnie Sylvester Norcross.

Mrs. Mildred C. Olderich.
Miss Charlotte Pitman Owen.
Mrs. Carrie E. Paine.

Mrs. Edith Caswell Parsons.
Mrs. Ellen Grey Parker Pease.
Kenneth N. Pease.

Mrs. Mae Flood Pease.

Miss Bertha Penie.

John K. Phelan,

Mrs. Sara Folger Pinkham.
Miss Marion Ramsdell.

Miss Margaret A. Ramsdall.
Miss Annie Sheffield Ray.
Mrs. Elsie Robiason Remsen.
Capt. Wm. G. Remsen.

Miss Mary R. Ring.

Mrs. Sarah J. Roberts.

Miss Lillie B. Robinson.
Cecil N. Russell.

Miss Edith M. Sandsbury.
Mrs. Alice C. Sawyer
Charles A. Sawyer.

Mrs. Dorothy Remsen Schofield.

Mrs. Marion Cook Sevrens.
Mrs. Virginia G. Sharp.

Miss Alice M. Sibley.

Mrs. Lydia Gardner Simpson.
Alfred Elmer Smith.

Mrs. Annie Smith.

Mrs. Annie M. Nye Smith.

| Franklin E. Smith.

Mrs. Mertie Harding Smith.
Miss Thelma Spare.

Horace E. Spencer.

Simeon Macy Starbuck.

Mrs. Nellie D. C. Strong.
Miss Clara Louise Stuart.
Ernest A. Studley.

Mrs. Anna McMaken Studley.
Israel M. Swain.

Israel Morey Swain Jr.

Mrs. Mary Jaggar Swain.
Ernest R. Terry.

Miss Frances W. Thomas.
Mrs. Lillie Orpin Thomas.
Mrs. Frances Joy Thompson.
Mrs. Lillian Wood Thurston.
Mrs. Anna R. Tracy

George H. Tracy.

Mrs. Grace F, Reins

Harry B. Turner.

P. Jackson Vail.

Max Wagner.

Miss Eileen Waite.

Miss Mary Waitt.

Mrs. Elsie Coffin Walsh.
Alfred Easton Wellington.
Miss Stella C. Wing.

Mrs. Edna Bishop Wood.
Mrs. Etta Marden Wood.
Mrs. Alice M. Woodbridge.
William D. Woodward.
Allen M. var

Miss Florence Jd. Worth.
Herbert G. Worth.

Mrs. Mary Coffin Worth.

Notes From The Reunion.
SW Miss j makes a good pre-

siding officer and is booked for another
| voyage. |

oe s
| The executive committee asks for
| suggestions for the reunion next year.
| If you have anything in mind that you
| think might be of interest, just pass
| the tip along.
* * . °
The “Sons and Daughters” are to
| have a brick or two in Nantucket’s
| whaling museum, having subscribed
| $100 to the fund.

_ Miss Grace Brown Gardner was re-elected President of the
Sons and Daughters of Nantucket at their annual Boston reunion,

which was attended by 152 people.
7 ise

Lpeng

“They Cannot Completely
Bedevil Nantucket”.

From Worcester Telegram, April 9.

; will go in for modern things.

the Pacific bank, but inside are plate
glass, and bobbed haired stenograph-
ers. The sheep no longer graze on

jrabbits for Mr. Justice’s green-coated

jminutes. The descendants of the
| whalemen search no far seas for a
| Moby Dick. In the harbor they scoop
scallops for the New York market.
The jail is no better than an old log
fake.

And now Nantucket goes into the|
booming business just like the Eng- ||
island. ||
Next September it proposes to hold a|

lish channel and Catalina
swimming contest across the sound
from the mainland with
Ederle, George Young and maybe that
woman who holds fame as the only
mother who ever swam from Calais

to Dover with a baby under each arm,

ants. The ordinarily sedate and digni-
fied Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror
gets out oversize type to join in the
ballyhoo and brazenly admits that
|September is selected as a date in
order that the advertising may go on
all summer. There is some lament

| population no chewing gum magnate
like William Wrigley, Jr., to pay the

mittees are doing their best as substi-
For purses and expenses the

|sum of $25,000 must be raised.

Thus goes old Nantucket, casting

; tutes.

Black Bottom in her sea boots and
| smoking cigarettes on her way to the
}movies. She bids for invasion «and in
her secret shame may peel a hard eye
for a chance to gyp the invaders. It
lwas not that way when the Oeno and

|
jw
Club held real cap’ns
and Cap’n Defriez for instance—in-
stead of mere summer idlers. Nan-
tucket, thar she blows—as long and
as loudly as she can.

They can’t change her—much. They
ruin her. The sea guards her
with its far flung arms,
shelters her on its tender bosom. Clean
airs drift over her. Through the rifts
‘of green the sun dapples her with

can’t

Nantucket, adorable in its antiquity,
The
| once prohibited automobile jolts over | island
| the cobbles of shady Main street. The|summer its isolation from the main-natives
{old brass latch is still on the door of} land is only seeming; for steamships

Gertrude |

j}, meanwhile,

that Nantucket numbers among its}

}
j
!

lthe Britow and the Oak sailed and;
hen the captains’ room at the Pacific |
Cap’n Grant}

the moors, but Kansas sends jack} tucketers with the great world.

’ . .
| Harriers to chase. Operating on gaso-} gay with life, strewn with bodies clac
j line the fire department covers nine}jin bright colored bathing suits.
imiles to a Wauwinet blaze in 15] sun shines, the surf breaks glisten| during this storm as the
It is a paradise fo self.
the tired city dweller, a haven for thd tumult
| weary
Yet even paradise has its obverse hope for
On the island’s eastern shore; days to return.

| gaiety of the beach, quenched the sun.
|The boats no longer run, the silver
| shingled

| dominate.

freight, but island and off-island com- || >
jedge their master;

| proper Nantucket word)

|

jaside her Quaker bonnet, hoofing the!

|ing on the shore.

| side.
| the
| tides.

4 | themselves,
or something of that sort, as contest- |!

When a Northeaster Breaks
Loose on Nantucket. |

.the opening, of schools, or a lover.

From the Springfield Sunday
Republican and Union.

music, or die, one says.

0

Forty miles out to sea lies thegye oeean thunders on.

of Nantucket. During thee

r

| steamboats run or the summer people
get off the island or not, to keep their

iterate.

polite rendezvous withbusiness oF »

. One could live forever to this
is But could

ay rain pours down,
i a OA north-
never lasts this long”, the
say reassuringly. “Tomor-
ow it will be surely clear”, they re-
But a northeaster does last

ne?

aster

ply back and forth with great fre-this long; tomorrow it does not clear.

quency. In winter it
but one boat a day unites the

x A t
In summer its white beaches ar4

mind. i
with incessant i

Atlantic pounds

True, the Gulf Stream warms these]
icy waters. But the smiling face is

not always worn by the ocean or by boat does not get through
at ‘

P s |leave the
Let a northeaster loose its fury on calls pour into the

Nature.

is otherwise: The storm goes on,
Nan- moors, storm over the dunes, storm
over the tiny cottages nestling close

almost \ !
Thd weather-vane, as fixed and imperious

A laconie signpost bears the most dreaded by
legend: “Spain, Portugal, 3000 miles”, with no storms

storm over the

o the sandy earth.

And, gradually,
against

the eye is drawn,
its will, to the

north star it- |
There it dwells constant in the |
_ resolute in the gale. A turn-|
ng or twisting would be the cause for |
those who want the sunlit
But it does not turn,
ints to that direction
those who want life
but all bright sun-

rather steadily po

ight.

Then the when the
No boats
that day. ’Phone
steamship office.

day comes

island

that sandy dot of land thrown up hap- Telegraph wires work overtime. Plans
hazardly in the ocean, and there is have to be re-arranged. Households on

another tale to be told. Gone the

cottages draw tightly into
the island population
from the storm. Life
has vanished from sight. Somewhere
hidden and protected, it lives. But,
the blind and powerful
forces of Nature rule, the elements!

takes shelter

Wind, rain, ceaseless and irresist-|
ible. The houses shake to the gale,
whose 60-mile velocity may well spell
ruin to shipping as well as to summer}
holidays. Rain beats into the msat-}
iable sand till even its thirst is sated.
Those neat gleaming walks and roads
of crushed clam shells now acknowl-
rutted and worn
by rain they lie prostrate.

On the moors (“commons” the
the unas-
suming beach plum which asks so
little of existence, merely the right to
survive and wring a frugal sweetness
from the lean soil, has also felt the
stern touch of the storm, its ripe
purpling fruits split open by the
pounding torrents. Bayberries, too,
have been ravished by the rain, silver
spheres shaken down into the moss

is

the point of turning
happy summer find one day
their vacation, or perhaps more
depending on whether space

their backs on a
added to
» all}

to take
mainland

the family car over to the
The hur-

can be secured on the boat.
ricane has uprooted no trees, torn
down no costly breakwaters, over-
thrown no houses, taken no toll of
life; yet what havoc it has wreaked
in the calendar of those who live by
the engagement book. _The autumnal
equinox may be a fixed point in
Nature’s almanac; other considera-
tions rule the human.

Man or no, the storm ends.
sun shines once more, the beach
again inhabited. Silver and washed
clean, the telephone poles, the old
wood fences, the shingled houses
gleam in the bright daylight. The
steamship schedule is resumed; the
summer people leave the island not
without a qualm or two of mal de mer
as the steamship pitches about on still
turbulent waters.

The storm is over, it is forgotten.
The mind, like those sun-dials of the
fable, is wont to record only sunny
davs. But Nature will not be_satis-
fied to be ignored or slighted. Up its
sleeve it always has a hurricane or

is

which gently receives and inters the}

ruined berry.

Whipping up from Charleston 10}
days ago came the hurricane which |
ravaged the Atlantic coastline. In-|
land, a hurricane takes its toll in the;
drenching rainfall in swollen rivers, |
in threatening floods, in dams hard |

|| pressed, in trees bent before the gale}

the sea.

gold. To win her prizes in September, |

those swimmers must breast 30 miles
of chilling water and hard running

H But the stately facades of the

_ tides.

old brick row with the gardens be- |
the moors with the purple |

| hind,
‘heather growing, the crimson sunset
softening the stern lines of the old

house where the little bride spoke with |
life is to be ironed out, smooth, like

the Indians and the charm and the
{peace and the content of the little
| pray town nestling beside the water
as the Lisbon bell rings clear at even-
tide—who wouldn’t swim thirty miles
to reach them?

oo

And yet Nantucket is Nantucket || or uprooted, in city streets flooded and

impassable, in roads washed out, in
stalled cars. But on a tiny island 15
miles long, whose highest elevation |
above sea-level is only a meager 100}
feet, a hurricane, with its attendant
gales and especially when accompan- |
ied bya northeaster which lasts a
full four days and nights, is another
matter.

There is no shelter from the ele-

| ments, no sense of deep security, such

|
|
|

as society has contrived for its urban
children. Man on an island in such a
storm is at grips with Nature.

A wild strange beauty, beauty far
removed from the concert room, the
symphony hall, the library, the art
museum. Man has moved tremendous
distances in sympathy with Nature;

a super-highway whose grades and
curves check the impatient motorist’s |
greed for speed. Ah, but Nature is|
not like that; it is mad and fury-
ridden, driven by devils who take no
heed of the sanctity of human life,
who give not a damn whether the

if

ltwo, anortheaster, @ tempest to re-

mind one that life is only half the
\picture, death, destruction, despair,
doom are the other side of paradise.

It is refreshing for a summer vaca-
tion, not only to find Nature all that
could be desired in sea and shore,
moors and clouds, but also human na-
ture so sturdy and worthy, an island
community typical of the history and
character that have made America.

[pis Boy Mischiot,

The *

i ¥ Oe ca
narecent issue, we published a Soni
munication on the subject of wanton and
mischievous breakage of window-glass by
school-boys, and in the same issue, we
mentioned the fact of the robbery of all
the apples from ‘a fine old tree which gave
promise of producing an unusually large
crop this year. "What aggravates tho
meanness of this last transaction is the |
fact that the gentleman to whom the fruit
belonged has lately had the misfortune to
lose his eyesight, and is quite powerless,
in his own person, to protect his property
or to summarily punish the offenders.

It may be said that there is always the
law to appeal to, but we never knew much
satisfaction to accrue to the prosecutor’
from legal proceedings against school-boys.
A boy, after he has got over the temporary |
scare, cares ‘very little about the matter;
he usually gets a slight reprimand, and the
parent begs him off from further disgrace
by promising that he shall be made to do
better in future. If a fine be inflicted, the
prosecutor is pretty sure to put a life-long
coolness—not to say, enmity,—between
himself and each parent who has been |
compelled to draw his wallet. If he can- |
not afford to do this, he had better pocket |
the loss he has ‘already sustained, and say
no more about it. |

This is a wrong course of conduct, we
all know. ‘Mercy should season Justice,
of course; but here there is so'much sea-
soning im ‘the dish, that the original flayor
of justice is altogether lost. But it is yet
an open question, which is the greater fool |
of the ‘two; he’ who’ suffers Himself to |
be injured without seeking legal redress, |
or he who goes to law, feeling that he him-
self will get rather the worst of it? So
in the case of the gentleman on Centre
street, who, being in feeble health, is con-
sidered by brave boys as a safe one to in-
fliet annoyance upon, is it any wonder that
he becomes’ exasperated, and desires to
take the law into his own hands ?

It seems 'to us that parents have the chief
duty to perform in this direction, and that
the law had much better be administered
at home than in the judicial courts. There
was much of good in the old patriarchal
system, ‘despotic as it was, and we might
do more than to partially return to that
system, even though its' requirements may
run counter to our habitual train of
thought at the present day. We are apt
to feel that our fathers and our teachers at
school were too severe and drew the rein
too tight with us during otr boyhood; and
we have a tendeney to run intothe opposite |

extreme. We err greatly if we suppose
that the average boy, if left to his own |
guidance, will develop only the noble trait |
of a young hero,’ Juvenile honor is a very |
fine thing to read about, but it is not so |
spontaneous in its growth as we could wish
it to be, and needs the constant stimulus |

:

of parental training and watchfulness. |

A \spaoa ss rigcpchaanres ae Se epe le

toe, ca Nelo haa Pepe are Se mr ee

ile LE WAR eh > > canter mama linn hh hrm -senshmiintne to

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Fhoto by Annie Alden Folger

A SOCIAL CUP OF TEA ON NANTUCKET NOT SO VERY MANY YEARS AGO.

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A Friendly Call, Nantucket.

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IN HOLLYHOCK TIME, NANTUCKET, MASS

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Nantucket’s Flowers.
The sail that sought the Seventh Sea—
Long ago brought home to me
Many seeds from many lands
Rainbows from the myriad lands.
Scottish broom in golden glee
Trims the path to Sankoty.
Vivid tweed my heatherland heather—
Loves an Island’s variant weather,
And the pungent bay-berry,
New England pewter, lives wit
Arbutus trails along the moor,
And lady slippers, pink, demure,
In sandy hollows, everywhere—

Shyly greet the salty air.
Hot summer lights the lily’s flame

h me.

And brings my rose to common fame—

| My rambler rose, it climbs the wall
Drapes the door step, runs to call—
Tops a chimney, taps a window
Petals bright and gorgeously
My island garden in the sea.
Long ago brought home to me
All beauty came to live with me
Oh voyager when you depart—
| Wear my flowers in your heart.
Eleanor Dixon Glidden

THE ARBUTUS.

BY REV, PHEBE A, HANAFORD. 6 2 =f
EHS

—_— AS.

(Mrs. Maria L. Owen baring Att my attention to
the fact that there is a wordy conflict going on in
reference to the pronunciation of the word ‘‘arbutus,”
and that she herself, in the Boston Transcript, has
given Cowper, E. B. Browning and Virgil-as authori-
ties for placing the accent on the first syllable, I heed
her suggestion and give the following rhymes as my
effort to write the earliest American stanzas in which

the accent is thus placed.—P. A, H.]
| Sweet arbutus, I hail thee now!

Such fragrance as thine own,

Remindeth of the censer’s breath
That swings before the throne;

The spring-time prayer of thankful hope,
Since God’s sure word hath said :

Seed-time and harvest shall not fail—
There shall be daily bread,

Sweet arbutus! thy fragrance brings
Dear faces to my view,

Which bend above the asphodels,
Where God makes all things new.
They speak with Kitty Carver where

All recognize the Power
That woke the Governor’s sweet child
To say, ‘God made this flower!’’

I may not seek the arbutus
To day, where poets dwell,
As on a distant May-day which
I’ve cherished long and well ;
But in my heart I cherish still
The beauty and the bloom
Of that fair blossom, and the rare,
The arbutus, perfume.

I would that on my native isle,
Where grows the fragrant flower,
I might, this blessed Easter time,
Spend many a happy hour,
And gather on the greening moors,
Where winds the trailing vine,
The arbutus, whose tiny cups
Bear the aroma fine.

I would not care if arbutus
Should be its Euglish name,

Or sweet arbutus it should be
To those of Pilgrim fame ;

Nor yet if Virgil umpire be
In this accenting strife,—

I'd only reach to grasp the flower

met 7 ad ae TR
At the end of the glacial period, the climate continued to
warm. Tundra animals and plants pressed northward. Some
animals and plants, such as bearberries, bunchberries and check-
erberries, golden heather and poverty grass, leather leaf and

Tae ;

But it is the natural
dise.
breeze.

water lobelia, remained and are still

“Flowers unmatched for tint and
| loveliness,” says the poem, and it is
‘a fact. Moreover, botanists every-—
where have discovered it. Book up-
on book has been written on the flora |
of Nantucket, the authors taking
every point of view from sheer ap-.

preciation to scientific analysis.

THE GOLDEN-ROD.

BY ANNA GARDNER.

In sun-smit splendor lavishly
Upon our commons wide,

Blazes the plumed autumnal flower
That lifts its head beside

The aster and her sisters bright.
Gaily we see it nod

In every breeze that passes by—
The queen-like golden-rod.

It teaches lessons of good cheer, {
Each on its mission bent,
While softly to the listening ear
It whispers, ‘‘ Be content.
Be cheery, hopeful, day by day,
As a brave spirit can;
Catching the sunshine we bestow
To help the lot of man.”

A mass of sunshine, all aglow,
Irradiating free
Its genial warmth on human hearts,
In loving sympathy—
Oh, precious are these golden blooms
That sprang from lifeless clod!
They bring us near to Nature’s heart—
Close to the heart of God.
—Woman’s Journal.
NANTUCKET, Sept. 27. 1S 7 re

Island Hydrangea.

: ; -
By Barbara Sharps

them all so briefly—

d possessed
island

island
walls,
|/The cobblestones of little lanes,
The shingles and the shutters,
The :kers and the window panes-
And we came to say goodbye.
We walked between the flow’ring|
hedges /
To a vista rai
And glimpsed
Smiling past the
And we
them,
Those ladies gowned in blue
Whose stateliness was powdered
With a powderpuff of dew.
Then fingered moonlight touched their
shoulders
And their petaled hoopskirts swayed
To an orchestra of. waltzes
That a lovely evening played.
Do you think that we were dreaming
| Beneath the island’s spell?
|Then were possession even briefer

gardens and the

clean,

» faces of hydrangea |}
gateway in between. |
stand and wateh |

dared to

| Methodists observe Hydrangea Sunday and anniversary)

Y - a Jul Pa |

Hydranges Sunday and the (for
anniversary of Methodism on
Nantucket will be observed

| together this Sunday, July 27, at
the United Methodist Church on
Centre Street during the 10:45 a.m.
worship service. The public is
invited to participate in the annual
hydrangea Sunday which sym-
bolizes the beauty of midsummer
flowers on Nantucket. Mrs. Harold

_ Dunham is the flower committee

will

chairman. She and her committee

|
|
|

gather and arrange the

displays.

Guest speaker for Sunday’s
special observance will be Rev.
Donald Bruce Lowe, pastor of the
Church of the Good Samaritan in
Washington,
family are the guests of Rev. and |
Mrs.
Lane. Rev. Pattison is minister
Emeritus

D.C. He and his
Frank Pattison of Roberts ©

of the Nantucket

Church.

The Trai‘ing Arbutus of Nantucket Moors,

growing today.

enough for bathing.

“ters contain stri

From the alchemy of rains,

Thus to fori these jewelled strains, |
Pearly white and ruby pink,

What ambrosia dost thou drink ?

Though the winds of April chill thee,
Sunshine iutervenes to thrill thee:
Thus thy beauty nothing lacks,
Centred in thy cup of wax.

Rootlets sturdy cling to life, |
Through the winter’s storm and strife!
Spring renews prolific stem,

Bearing many a clustered gem.

Hiding in thy lone retreats,
Thee, the weary traveller greet;
Rests awhile from eark and care,
Dreams of long-lost visions fair

Breathes the incense of thy breath,
On the dear, familiar heath,

Cheered, consoled, and blest anew
By the flower his childhood knew.

4o3

CAROLIVE PARKER HILLs.

HOSPITAL ROSES.

They stand in a vase by my pillow—
Those beautiful roses of mine;

Each bud seems the face of an angel,
With love of the giver a-shine.

Oh, roses, sweet roses, your love-notes
Like bird songs are thrilling my
e heart;
You cheer me and bring me the sun-
shine
That bursts your soft petals apart.
There’s a scent in the air of a garden
With roses, eternal, in bloom;

They scatter each cloud from my pil-

low;
They banish each spectre of gloom. |

They promise me flowers that are.
fadeless; |
They eassure me of Love that’s
Divine;
For surely the Maker of roses
Can _ pluck life’s last thorn out of
mine.
Anna Starbuck Jenks.

_|Nantucket Cottage Hospital,

July 10th, 1923.

[Old-Fashioned Flowers
By Ethel Lynn Beers

Where are the dear, old-fashioned
posies,
Quaint in form and bright in hue,
Such as grandma gave her lovers
When she walked the garden
through?

Lavender, with spikes of azure
Pointing to the dome on high,

Telling thus’ whence came its color,
Thanking with its breath the sky.

Four o’clock, with heart unfolding,
When the loving sun had gone,
Streak and staih of cunning crimson

Like the light of early dawn.

Regal lilies, many-petaled,
Like the curling drifts of snow,
With their crown of golden anthers
Poised on malachite below.

Morning glories, tents of purple,
Stretched on bars of creamy white,

Folding up their satin curtains
Inward through the dewy night.

Marigold, with coat of velvet,
Streaked with gold and yellow lace,

With its love for summer sunlight
Written on its honest face

Dainty pink, with feathered petals,
Tinted, curled, and deeply frayed,

With its calyx heart, half broken,
On its leaves uplifted laid.

.
Can’t you.see them in the garden,
Where dear grandma takes her
nap?
See cherry blooms shake softly over
Silver hair and snowy cap?

Will the modern florist’s triumph
Look so fair or smell so sweet
As those dear, old-fashioned posies
Blooming round our grandma’s

feet?

aire

scup, flounders,
haddock and _ pollock.

as zero. What more can you ask of
Nantucket?

Wild Roses in Nantucket.

I Bacw a fairy Far-Away-Land
wit. the Roses ou tnumber the Stars
id Roses dancing a light Saraband ;
Wild Roses not prisoned in jars. ”
wRey blossom all over in Far-Away-Land
bs sti aa by roadside, by sea,
Win 6 € gaze, so frail to the hand—
id hoses to greet you and me!

They carpet the moors in Far-Away-Land
ties y Sway in Atlantic’s breezes, ;
“He edge right up to the Ocean’s strand
ae at: nought of the fog as it teases, ”
y blossom all over in Far-Away-Land—
is ow: gently they bow to all sailors!
@nyone passes they chant in a band:
Wild Roses! We are the whalers!”
“
a we cf us here is a memory sweet
tb Wraaleman gone to His Skipper,
ua Ae a who manfully hauled on the sheet
Wilda wos’ ay to the Cross from the Dipper.
l oses, we all in our memory keep
Bee time-honored hail: ‘Thar she Bless f
Serato: wrested aloft from the Deep
t peril and venture with floes,” 4

“Wesbee: vo i
&@ vou be happy in Far-Ax
e happy i r-Away-Land
y And thoughtful of Whalemen long gone
i cull us in wend ry t
Vith our memories ¢: ke us
a ‘on wiGmories take us along!
ol Hoses, we ll grow till the last Summer ends
Pee: re ie sons of the. Whalemen protect us
re : : 9 TRS ee
thee: mpbe! Up Yon His Lifeline extends
7 Our Vaptains—who’ll ever direct us!”?
-
Red Clover.
REV. LOUISE 8S. BAKER.
Do you know how the Clover goes to bed,
} My dear little lads and lassies ?
| She folds up her hands and bows down her
head,*

To the song of the rustling grasses.

When a four-leaved clover happens that way,
She puts her two heads together,
And sweetly they sleep, these bright clovers
gay,

In all kinds of wind and of weather.

If some little Brownie whispers to one,
“Come, let’s have a waltz, my dear Clover,”
She blushes deep red; with a ripple of fun,

2 answers, ‘‘My dancing is over.”

y, they sleep, red blossoms and white,
In crowds of yellow-haired daisies;
They open their eyes at early daylight,
And sing out their kearts in soft praises.
winter-time now, sweet Clover sleeps
sound,

A snow-

I soft and all pure.

white blanket above her,
So, close to the ground
nestles, for, that is her mother.

e violetsstar the ground oyer,
As blue and as fresh as the lovely spring skies,
She’ll gently push off little Clover,
ying, ‘Rise, now, my darling, look out on the
day,
And see where the fields are greened over;
Shake out your bright tresses in lovely array,

Bu Peat ’ ’
But keep close to me, my dear Clover.”

> men and little maidens,
Little
You are like the sweet Red Clover,
With y

With your cheeks so fair and rosy,

ads and lassies dear,
eyes so pure and clear,

And your chubby, dimpled hands;
When you fold them for your prayers,
Angels guard yon with their wands!

NANTUCKET, Mass

aS ae

Ing your way to the sand

yin ts

NANTUCKET HYDRANGEAS

Bora of Nantucket

By FRANK MACKEEVER

‘The writer has found that the
flora of Nantucket is full of sur-
prises. Especially so, when he dis-
covered albino-fruited wintergreen
berries and cranberries. And, al-
bino flowered fireweed, milkwort,
and moccasin-flower. And, what a
sight, for a Scotsman, to suddenly
see before him a _ white-flowered
thistle.

Very few areas similiar to Nan-
tucket can boast of possessing an
herbarium which contains collec-
tions of the plant-life-for that area.
Nantucket can boast of having just
such an herbarium. Thus, our visi-
tors may find this herbarium of
great help in establishing the iden-
tity of the plants they collect.
Housed in this herbarium, are
priceless collections of many of the
early, and recent, students of ‘this
insular flora.

Cleft Road

Wild Plauls of Nantucket

MRS OWEN.
For gale at the Atheneum Library. Sent pi
paid to any address on receipt of price, 75 ctss
aui—4t*

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Flowers In Crannies
PR.

APK.14bT
BY FRANK H. MACKEEVER

A tree grows in Brooklyn; but—
an orchid grows in Nantucket! And,
it does poke out of a cranny. Be-
cause, one dictionary, at hand,
defines the word as — “a small,
narrow opening.” Thus, if there
had not been an opening through
which our orchid could poke its
stems to reach the sunlight, it
would not have flowered — or,
have been discovered.

Now, this all happened back in
1964, when Mrs. Emil F. Guba
showed the writer a beautiful clump
of an orchid which she discovered
growing up through the knee-high
grass of the wildflower area of the
Guba property on Lily Street — a
most unexpected station, for an
orchid, right in the heart of the
town.

Our posy is truly a member of
the family Orchidaceae which is
usually spoken of as the Orchis
Family. It is scientifically known as
Habenaria lacera, and commonly
called the Green Fringed Orchis, or
Ragged Orchis, because of the lac-
erated “petals.” The flowers are a
yellowish or bronzy green, and
quite fragrant. In certain settings,
one must look closely to find them.
Despite this almost perfect example
of mimicry, which protects it from
being ruthlessly picked, the writer
has noticed a diminishing in the
size of some of the colonies, as well
as, the number of plants within the
colonies — over the past nine years
of studying our insular flora. The
brushing and clearing of lands,
where certain colonies once existed,
has caused their disappearance in
those areas. Nevertheless, there are
some dandies still tucked away out
there in the bush.

Seeing as how this story has
turned out to be — “a shorty,” let’s
steal a bit more of our kind editor’s
space for “a couple more.” Espe-
cially, “a wind up believe it or not
one”! What Gam “fodder” some of
these stories would make!

Now, it is a rather striking coin-
cidence that the previous article, of
this series, mentioned the fact that
six years ago the Inquirer and Mir-
ror published an article about the
plant mentioned in our recent story.
And, it so happens that six years
ago, almost on the same date as of
this writing, on April 14, 1961, an
article was published about the plant
— “coming up.” Another orchid
found growing in Nantucket!

Like its predecessor, it was, also,
poking out of the grass, which was
only hand-high, as this orchid is
but a slip of a thing.

It certainly is “something to talk
about” to find an orchid growing
right in the heart of the town. Yet,
this wee thing is, also, “a conversa-
tion piece.” For — of all places —
a nice little colony, of this wee
orchid, was found flourishing right
in the middle of the old — fair-
ground race track! Upon spotting it,
the writer reminisced a bit, and
wondered how many feet had trod
over the same spot. Human feet,
horses’ hoofs aflyin’, even the tires
of old-time bikes and gas-buggies
— all must have “hit this spot” at
one time or another!

This little orchis is known as
Spiranthes tuberosa. For, the tiny
plant emerges from a small tuberous-
thickened root, which resembles
somewhat that of a miniature
Dahlia. It is commonly called Little
Ladies’-tresses, or Pearl-twist. Per-
sonally, the writer prefers the latter,
as the tiny white flowers are on the
upper portion of the stem which has
a few spiral twists. And, even
though this wee thing is not big and
showy, like the ones you gals like
to have pinned on you, it is still an
orchid.

Perhaps, the following closing
sentence of our six year old article
would serve nicely, here.

Maybe our little flower of the
fairgrounds sprang up “at the finish
line” — suggestive of that saying
to a winner — “an orchid to you”!

So that someone shall not be
“scalped” — this following story
shall be “short, sweet, and simple.”

A few years ago, the writer stood
on one of the high points of the
Siasconset waste area (dump). He
looked down at “the lower level”
where grows (or did) one of the
biggest, best, and most beautiful
colonies of blephariglottis — rather,
Habenaria blephariglottis — the
White Fringed Orchis.

As his old “eagle-eyes” were
scanning the area, they suddenly
came to rest on an upturned, bot-
tomless piece of ponderous pottery.
A relic of days gone by, when the
likenesses of which were placed be-
neath the bed prior to retiring.
And — there — poking out of that
bottomless bowl, resembling a huge
cup—was a beautiful blephariglottis
— a White Fringed Orchis!

So ’Sconset — “an orchid to
you”! For, there are still some left,
out there, to be saved!

Save Christmas Trees

A request that the citizens save
their Christmas trees after the holi-
days and turn them over to the
Tree Commission for planting at
the head of Hither Creek in Mada-
ket has been made by Chairman
Walter S. Barrett.

The trees serve to hold the drift-
ing sand during winter storms and
help to build up a sand buffer
against erosion at the creek. Last
year about five hundred were
planted through the efforts of the
Highway Department, Tree Com-
mission and the Mosquito Control
Project. Mr. Barrett reports the
trees built up a strip of sand across
the head of the creek about a foot
high and 16 feet wide.

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—"*

Please do not pick!

The Natural Science Department
of the Maria Mitchell Association
says that some of the island’s many
wildflowers are becoming scarse or
endangered through overpicking.
They have published a list of
flowers that should never be
disturbed.

At present say Eileen McGrath,
director of the natural history
department, and Larry Noblick,
botonist, the scarsity of the red
wood lily is of greatest concern.
This flame colored wildflower grows
on the open moors. Once picked it
never blooms again.

A natural science department
statement says: “While Nantucket
still has in plenty some wildflowers
now scarse on the. mainland,
according to the New England
Wildflower Preservation Society and
other groups, here certain plants
plentiful elsewhere have been
overpicked and need help to
survive.

“The Garden Club and our
efforts in recent years to inform the
public have helped in saving the
red wood lily from extinction on
our island moors.”

With the wood lily, there are
three other flowers or plants that
people should be especially careful
of. The rose, or swamp mallow,
‘which blooms in August in swampy
areas, is on the endangered list and
should never be tampered with. Sea
lavender is endangered here on
Nantucket. White Pond Lilys are
also endangered. Apparently some
children have been selling the white
pond lilys on Main Street
unknowingly, and the association
hopes this will stop.

Other plants which should never
be picked or uprotted are: any wild
orchid, bloodroot, bunchberry,
prickly pear cactus, liverwort,
marsh pink, trillium, purple
milkwort, Soloman’s seal,
turtlehead, blazing star, dusty
miller, pink yarrow.

Bird’s foot violet, Canada
mayflowers, indian pipe, Jack-in-the
pulpit, Partridge berry, shinleaf,
spotted wintergreen, trailing
arbutus, trailing evergreens, white
pear lily.

Bittersweet, blue flag, butterfly
week, marsh pink, pitcher plant,
turkscap lily, cactus.

The Natural Science Department
of the Maria Mitchell Association,
located in Hinchman House at Milk
and Vestal Streets, will be happy to
provide further descriptions and
information on any of Nantucket’s
wildlife.

Nantucket’s flowering trees and
shrubs are at their all-time
splendor this week. The rainfall we
received -- % inch Sunday
following along after the .30 inches
of last Thursday-Friday — was just
enough to bring the blossoms to
perfection. Downtown streets in
the business district. have been
lovely, as have many of the private
yards and gardens, where the
cherry, apple and other trees have
been at their height. One of the
loveliest, as scarcely noticed by
the casual passer-by is that in the

back yard of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney

Killen on East Street. 147A

MAY

Mrs. Yates loved Island
flowers: knew the secret
of Nantucket heather

“A grain of mustard seed, which
a man took, And cast into his
garden; and it grew, and waxed a
great tree.”

Earlier this week one of the
founders of the Nantucket Garden
Club, Mrs. Eugene Yates, was
buried on her beloved island. One
of her major achievements while
president of that group, helping to
create a heather sanctuary on the
commons of Nantucket, is still
such a closely guarded secret that
its history and locations are dif-
ficult, if not impossible, to trace.

Probably the most informative
kit of writing on the Nantucket
heather story to date is an article
by Elizabeth Hollister Frost (Mrs.
Walter Blair, appearing in the
Garden Club of America - bulletin
of 1952, with an addenda in 1955.

The secret of where Scotch
heather grows on Nantucket “has
passed from mother to daughter,
from father to son, for close to a
hundred years,” Mrs. Blair writes.
“Anyone who knows the secret
must not pick, and must not tell.”

The first discovery of heather on
the island, she adds, was a single
plant of Erica Cinerea, the Bell
Heather of Europe, in a group of
Nantucket pines in August of 1868,

Ten years later the Calluna
Vulgaris, “‘the loved ling of
Scotland,”’ was discovered by
Nantucket schoolboy Lawrence
Coffin many miles away from the
first find. 4

By 1900, two secret stations of
two varieties of white heather had
been set out upon the moors,
names and locations now lost.

And soon after, inspired by the

knowledge of hidden patches of the
plant, heather seeds from Scotland
were sown by those driving or
riding horseback over the com-
mons.
It was sometime during the early
days of the garden club, the early
mid-fifties, that the heather
project got underway, inspired
perhaps by the sudden appearance
of large plants of the ling and of
white heather in new and unex-
plained locations.

Soon, under the guidance of Mrs.

Blair and spurred by the in-
domitable energy of Mrs. Yates,
the ladies of the garden club were
planting small stands of heather in
spots known only to themselves
throughout heath and moor. One of
the earliest entries in club minutes,
in June of 1956, reports merely that
“since our last meeting two weeks
ago, 100 more heather plants have
been planted on the island.”
’ Faithfully the ladies watered the
plants throughout the first few
years. — solitary figures with
watering cans at destinations
known only to themselves,

At one Garden Club meeting,
Mrs. J. Winston Fowlkes reports,
“Mrs. Yates said that 14 of her
plants had taken hold and were in
existance.”

Mrs. Fowlkes relates also the
time she and Mrs. Jules Thebaud
set out to find their heather and
were appaled to discover they had
forgotten the site, which remains
lost to this day.

So if you are walking the moors
and suddenly discover a spread of
purple-pink rising to the next
knoll, . don’t pick, and don’t tell,
and perhaps some day, as Mrs.
Blair writes:

“Our island off the shores of
America, which early English
settlers called The Step Between,
will bear upon its rolling moors a
weight of purple as natural, as wild
and gentle as that found at Darley
Dell or Connemara.”

Many years ago Mrs. Yates
showed me two stands of lavender
heather she had planted near a
small pond. Someday IT. shall try to
find them again. per

Monogamy, not chastity,
for Mute Swans

| Dear Editor,

| Please don’t condemn the mute

1960 — 15 Years Ago

Mrs Sydney Coffin, of Nantucket, was a guest on the TV progran

“Play Your Hunch” on September 7. She was one of the three people

trying to fool a panel to guess which person was a bird watcher. Mrs.

Coffin, a shy person, was a good sport and managed to give both
Nantucket and her column “Bird Tracks” a good bit of publicity.

Ne ae

swan to a life of chastity! What
your reporter meant (front page
this week) was not that ‘‘once it
has mated it will never do so

again’ but that the Mute Swan
mates for life and each pair brings
up a family each year, usually
returning to the same breeding
ground and incidentally showing us
all a shining example of marital

fi

Jacob Jones advertised that he had returned to his vocation — “the :

art and mystery of chimney-sweeping, with its concomittants, white-
washing and housecleaning.”

fidelity and family ‘‘together-

”

ness

You may be interested to know
is also
protected in England but before
this ruling and today if one is ac- '
cidentally killed, swans must be
offered to the Sovereign, having
always been considered royal birds
fit for the King’s table. Nowadays
‘the Queen never accepts the gift of

that the Mute Swan

course!
Yours faithfully,
Janet Nelson

oe .
i si ate pening ball was held at Institute
A Leap Year soiree ani eres large ses
which was pater
rie and ‘1876’ suspended from tt
high combs enhanced the fancy antique
ticipants, who found themselves in he =
eft the hall in the early morning hours, — x

m- ™

aaewr huecnlar.

1836 — 140 Years Ago BE ar
Anew avenue was opened through Coffin’s Court by the sg “age
Co.’s establishment. It was named Gay Street in comp 2a
Gamaliel Gay, of Providence, whose ingenuity and skill broug’
most of the machinery in use in ee of silk.

—Q—
1926 —50 Years Ago ais Ee
The Nantucket Historical Association announced plans
restoration of the Oldest House, acquired in 1925 from the we .
late Tristram Coffin of Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Winthrop ‘ i , ‘
Boston, offered to pay the cost of the work and to supervise i ; “a
Monday night, March 19, was the first time in the sollgiters
Pacific Club that members enjoyed an evening of cards ve
room. Cards were considered taboo at the Club until piece dt ae
brought about a change in regulations. The first card game a

was auction bridge.

1901 —75 Years Ago

—)—
1951 — 25 Years Ago a a
Nantucket High School students presented a Square Dance

at Bennett Hall, sponsored by the P.T.A. and directed by Charles
Stackpole, for the benefit of the Senior Class’ trip to Washington. In
addition to the square dances, the entertainment featured songs from
“Oklahoma”, with soloists Doris Richrod, Elmer Davis, Joan
Laprade, Ronald Cormie, Betty Cartwright. Barbara Petumenos and
Charles Stackpole, among others, and accompanied by a large chorus.

— i}

1951 — 25 Years Ago

On March 27 the “‘Siasconset No.”, the last of the old gear
used by the Fire Department, was towed to Town and placed bes

1836 — 140 Years Ago ane

rep ar at
‘

1836 — 140 Years Ago

Two of the island’s oldest residents died within a few days of each
other. Hepsibeth Russell “‘in the one hundredth year of her age. She
was the oldest person in town.” Five days later, on April 19, John
Baird, age 93, one of the two oldest males in town, passed on.

The Atlantic Silk Co. organized on April 20, 1836, for the production
and manufacture of Silk in the County of Nantucket. The Corporation
was granted its charter by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
William H. Gardner was the first president, Samuel B. Tuck,
treasurer, and S. H. Jenks, clerk. The Directors were Messrs. Gard-
ner, Tuck, William Coffin, S. H. Jenks and George W. Ewer. The “may
hold Real Estate to the amount of $60,000. . .and the whole Capital
Stock of said Corporation is not to exceed $100,000.”

ey Ye
1876 — 100 Years Ago

The new carpet arrived for the Unitarian Church and the ladies of
the church promptly went to work sewing up seams. It was estimated
that 400 yards of carpet would be necessary to cover the floor.

Odd Fellows’ Block on Center Street was re-painted. The Inquirer
and Mirror commented that ‘‘a little paint makes the old appear new,
every time.”

een eg
1901 — 75 Years Ago

Ernest H. Jernegan and others of Nantucket petitioned the Southern
Massachusetts Telephone Co. to consider laying a cable to Nantucket
from Marthas Vineyard, thus connecting it to the mainland.

Maurice W. Boyer, for 10 years with one of the leading
photographers in Boston as well as working with Henry Wyer in
Nantucket, announced that he had taken rooms on Main Street for a
photographic studio. Pin

j 1926 —50 Years Ago

Nearly 200 Nantucketers took advantage of the steamship round trip
to New Bedford on the holiday to attend the region’s Spelling Bee and |
to root for ““Max’’. Max held up pretty well, being only the 10th to fail |
out of the 18 contestants. The Spelling Bee was won by a contestant
from New Bedford’s north school, Leo Goldberg.

Members of the Nantucket Fire Department organized the Nan- |
tucket Firemen’s Association. The first officers were W. J. Blair,
president; Archibald Cartwright, vice-president; George Haddon,
secretary, and Thomas Curley, treasurer. The object of the
association was to raise funds for the relief of members hurt in the
performance of duty, to aid in fire prevention classes, etc.

— 0 —
1951 — 25 Years Ago

Edouard A. Stackpole, on April 16, was awarded a $3,000 |
Guggenheim Fellowship. This would allow him to spend a year in |
research from Virginia to Maine and to Nova Scotia, studying in
preparation for a book of New England Whalemen.

The most valuable basketball players at Nantucket High School
were Stanley ‘‘Bushy” Conway and Bette Terry.

—§—
1956 — 20 Years Ago

Linwood E. Proctor was seriously injured when an automatic pistol
he was cleaning accidentally discharged. The clip had been removed
but Mr. Proctor had forgotten that one bullet remained in the 7.35 mm.
German Luger. He managed to get to the phone to call for help and |
was found to have injuries to the spleen, stomach and lungs. An |
operation was performed immediately by Drs. Sziklas, Menges and |
Folger.

Albert A. Fee, Harold Anderson and William B, H. Snow were ap- :
pointed to the Finance Committee. Mr. Snow was a re-appointment, |
while the other two replaced Harvey Young and Vernon Hamilton.

The Hyannis Airport Administration Building was completely
gutted by fire at 2:30 a.m. on April 19. Everything in the building was
lost.

Brg

1961 — 15 Years Ago

April 19 — death of George E. Grimes, 92, the State’s oldest public
official, retired Nantucket Weather Bureau Observer and a member
of the Board of Assessors.

Work was started on laying the concrete, curb at the Rotary
Milestone, to enclose the ‘‘James Coffin Memorial’’.

8 Nantucket Scouts and leaders became members of the Order of the
Arrow at Camp Greenough on Cape Cod. The group were William
Barrett, David Lawrence, Brian Legg, Bruce King, Joseph Rezendes
III, Richard Ray, District Scout Commissioner Edgar T. Lindstrom
and Edgar J. Bowen, vice-chairman of the district committee.

“Cataract No.1” in the Fair Street Museum of the Nantucket ar _ ‘ie
Historical Association. |

\

. Observers Record 87 Species
951 Of Birds on Island. .

During a two-day watch on the is-|
land over the Memorial Day weekend,
four birders from Worcester and vi-;
cinity noted 87 different kinds of birds,
which is believed to be a record for
such a short period. In 1950, 77 erecta
were recorded by observers.

Mr. and Mrs. Philip B. Heywood of!
Worcester, who have a house at 3
Weymouth. Street, and their guests,
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie A. Campbell of
Belchertown, made the recent findings.
Mr. Campbell is chief of the Quab-
bin Reservoir and is considered one
ofthe best bird watchers in the East.
Mr, Heywood told this paper that the
list beats by 15 or 20 the number of
birds found by parties in past years.

Great Point, Smith’s Point, Eel
Point and the Commons were among
places visited. The group did list
a humming bird, a mocking bird} f an
oriole, all of Which have been sighted
here this spring.

Rarities included eight crossbills,
both white-winged and red, and one
Canada goose. Others with only one
specimen were: American scoter,
red-breasted merganser, Hudsonian
curlew, Eastern willet, least sandpiper,
retl-breasted mnuthatch, house wren,
red-eyed vireo, parula warbler, oven-
bird, and blue grosbeak.

In twos were great blue heron, green
heron, killdeer, golden, plover, up-

land plover, eastern dowitcher, brown |

thrasher, yellow warbler, bay-breasted
warbler, pine warbler. In threes: spot-
ten sandpiper, semi-palmated sand-
piper, mourning dove, wood pewee,
cliff swallow, blue jay, magnolia
warbler, American redstart.

Other species: six double-ereasted

cormorants, 22 gannets, 20 black- |
eight black}

crowned night heron,
ducks, six white-winged scoters, 11
red-tailed hawks, 20 marsh hawks,
| four sparrow hawks, six bob-whites,
| eight piping ploved, four greater yel-

Raising of baby quail

;

By Sydney Coffin 1a '72

A week ago, last Friday, when I
was down town, I happened to|
meet Mabel Depue of Quidnet, who
told me that she was raising a baby

uail. She told me that she had
searched everywhere, over and
over, for the quail’s nest, but could
not find it anywhere. Of course it
might have been a frail structure,
blown away by the wind and the
rain — the weather was quite
stormy last Friday — but it is also
possible that Mabel could not find
the nest because the mother quail
did not want her to find it; quails
are extraordinarily clever at
concealing their nests.

Mabel said she knew the quail
was very young when she found it,
because it still had its egg tooth,
that little horn or spur at the end
of its bill which drops off,
according to Forbush, about three
days after the chick is hatched.

I asked Mabel how whe was
feeding her little quail, and she said

| she was giving him baby cereals,
the kind that human babies eat. I
asked if he seemed to like them,
and she said, yes, he did. She has
torn up a lot of little bits of paper
| to put in his box, and at night time
he burrows under a pile of papers
and disappears.

THE WILD DUCK. (£4/
CAROLINE PARKER HILLS
A wavering line of black, floats in the cove;
The ducks from Arctic clime already rove ;
And some will swim, and some will
fly,

Unmindful of the dark, tempestous sky;
course,

hoarse.

air,

Or those the crested wave serenely bear;
j Between opposing groups their sentinels fly,
/ To ward off danger, should a foe be nigh;

In yonder bay what myriad flocks take form,

overing

And in their swiftest flight, most venturous]
They heed not threatening winds, with accents

These feathered squadrons, drifting throngh the

The Ladybird is assisting ;
Island gardeners

The Ladybird Beetle is making a
big hit on Nantucket. This small
insect, commonly known as the
Ladybug, is being used instead of
chemicals to rid gardens of other
damaging insects. They are
imported, in one case, coming from
Auburn, California.

The ladybug has a voracious
appetite, eating a variety of insects,
eggs, larvae etc. Among those
which the bug destroys are the fruit
scales, mealybugs, bollworm, leaf
worm, leafhoppers, fleahoppers and
corn ear worm. On some of these
she destroys only the eggs and
larvae as the adults are too large
for her to handle. She is
carnivorous, and does not harm
vegetation.

This new biological control has
many advantages over the chemical
control. Also using biological
control methods, the beneficial
insects are left to survive and
multiply, eventually gaining the
control or balance which nature
intended. On Nantucket the
Ladybug should be released
between the middle of June to the
first part of July.

THE ROBIN,

j by Rev. Phebe A. Hanaford.

Welcome! red-breasted bird of Spring!
Thou herald of bright days!

Thou speakest of the verdant fields
Which soon will meet our sraze.

The bursting leaf buds come with thee,
The lawn is green once more;

With every song, the robin tells
Grim Winter's reign is o'er.

But Spring is far more dear,
With bursting buds, and sweet Mayfiowers,
And Robin's song of cheer.

Then hail! thou beauteous harbinger
Of those delightful days,

|
The winter has its blessings,
|

Beneath the summer rays!

Harbingers.

There was a little ground hog
Who peeked from his hold:

He thought he saw his shadow,

And the air was cold. ¢

He pulled his little nose inside
And thus he did sing: rs
“For six more weeks I’ll hide aw:
Until it cometh Spring.” © = ~
There were many little pussies,
Strong and bold,

Swinging high on the twigs
Though the air was cold.

Snuggled in their gray fur coats, “

Cunning as could be,
Gleaming in the Winter sun: —
A Pussy-willow tree.

A snow-drop and a crocus
Smiled across the bed:
“Winter’s dropping fast astern,
And Spring is just ahead.”

Ruth Haviland Sut

The Grey Gull.
Above the wharf in shadowed light
A sudden motion stirs the air,
And in the silver moonlit night
A lone grey gull is circling there.

It dips and’ rises gracefully
And glides at ease on wing.

It rides the water restfully ...
I hear it shriek but never sing.

Of all the plaintive cries I’ve heard
Throughout the land or on the sea
I think I’ve never known a bird

To pierce so deep the heart of me.| —
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—Martha Carolyn Sparrow.) ~

110 Main Street, Nantucket, Mass.

Wild Roses in Nan.ucket.

I know a fairy Far-Away-Land
Where the Roses outnumber the Stars,
Wild Roses dancing a light Saraband,
Wild Roses not prisoned in jars.
They blossom all over in Far-Away-Land

llow. legs, six shoxt-eared owls, 10
| flickers, six black-capped chickadees,
six bluebirds, four black-poll warblers,
| 20 goldfinch. The creeping mist comes now, to shroud the
In profusion were: ring-necked scene,

| pheasant, black-bellied plover, ruddy And whirling snow-flakes fall with glittering]
|turnstones, sanderlings, great black- sheen;

i backed gulls, herring gulls, laughing While Coatue’s coast its icy boundary hides ;—j Pleasant Hill Farm,

Far A Basom, Gen Co., N. Y
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Where, through the summer days, the cactu April, 1916.

“The tong, bright days are coming”!
The Robin's song declares;

And in his joyous greeting
Each grateful hearer shares.

And cry a joyous welcome to the storm! On commons, by roadside, by sea,
So pink to the gaze, so frail to the hand—

Wild Roses to greet you and me!

They revel hold, with winds that wildest blow;

Their pulses beat with ocean’s ebb and flow;

We hail the buds and flowers,
Our grateful praises soar;

While “‘Robin-Redbreast” sings aloud,
“Grim Winter's reign is o'er!”

| When fields and gardens bud and blcom
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They carpet the moors in Far-Away-Land,
They sway in Atlantic’s breezes,

They edge right up to the Ocean’s strand,
Think nought of the fog as it teases.

They blossom all over ‘a Far-Away-Land—
How gently they how ic all sailors!

If anyone passes thev chant in a band:
“Wild Roses! We are the whalers!”

gulls, common tern, Arctic tern, ros-
eate tern, least tern, chimney swift,
American ~three-toed woodpecker, bles.

prairie horned lark, tree swallOWS, ana we, the creatures of too brief a day,
bank swallows, barn swallows, ¢croWS, Look outward, ever, as through magic glass}
catbirds, robins, starlings, northern To scan the changing visions as they pass;
yellow-throat, English sparrows, red- While nature glories in her mystic power ;
wings, bronzed grackle, cowbirds, Sa- Gleams in the iceberg; blushes in the flower.
vannah sparrows, grasshopper spar- Nantucket, Dec. 1890,

rows, song sparrows, and red-eyed

towhee.

bides— |

Now calm, now storm; eacli have in turn, their

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Nantucketers have been
reporting the appearance of the
monk parrot at their feeders
recently. The birds, which escaped
en route to an aviary, are proving
to be not only spectacular additions
to bird feeders, but are in danger
of becoming as great a nuisance as
are the starlings and cowbirds. In
particular, last weekend, both the
|Edouard Stackpoles and Charles J.
| Lipscomb reported the bird at their
feeders - no doubt the same bird as
Mr. Lipscomb lives just across the
street from the Stackpoles.

sone

“Each one cf us here is a memory sweet
Of a Whaleman gone to His Skipper,
Of a Whaler who manfully hauled on the sheet
All the way to the Cross from the Dipper.
Wild Roses, we all in our memory keep
The time-honored hail: ‘Thar she blows,’
Of Leviathan wrested aloft from the Deep,
Of peril and venture with floes.”

“We beg vou be happy in Far-Away-Land
And thoughtful of Whalemen long gone.

You may cu!l us in wending your way to the sand,
With our memories take us along!

Wild Roses we'll grow till the last Summer ends
While the sons of the Whalemen protect us

And the S perp Yon His Lifeline extends
‘o our ins —v sever direct us!’

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Motorists traveling the Madaket Road in the Long Pond area have
stopped to admire the family of swans that has recently declared this
to be their home. Shown, with pinions spread as though for a take-off,
is the mother swan, followed closely by her brood of baby swans, or
cygnets. Off in the brake somewhere is the father swan, known as a cob.

Young Mute Swan killed
by speed boat 39/77

According to State Fish and
Game Warden Edward Metcalf, a
young Mute swan was killed in a

boating accident Tuesday evening

just outside of the Boat Basin.
Either through negligence or
excessive speed, a_ juvenile
operating a Boston Whaler .ran
over one of the four young birds
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their frequent patrols of the
Harbor. Because of the boy’s age,
no action was taken against him.
Had he been older, he would have
been charged with operating the
boat with negilccataaay

The Mute swan i ‘protected
under State Fish and Wildlife laws.

_ The tragedy of the accident was

‘the youth of the bird which was
‘killed: Metcalf said that it takes
three years for the Mute Swan to
grow to maturity, and, once it has
mated, it will never do so again.

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The Knox chemical fire engine first legalized automobile on Nantucket.

ha RN Inquires if law provides Town
THE LAW IN NANTUCKET ~~ By Dahl payment for marriage ceremony

THE WORST LAW BREAKERS ON | AND BICYCLISTS. NANTUCKETHAS If. anyone ever thought that

THE ISLAND ARE YOUNG LADIES MORE BICYCLES (AND COBBLESTONES> clergymen were well paid, they,

d THAN PEOPLE. ~ z should have been at the Selectmen’s

7 meeting last night when Rt. Rev.

James Hayes, who refers to himself

as a Bishop-Priest of a religious

cult, appeared before the Board to

~-—= inquire as to whether the town had

~ ever adopted a law, approved in the

) ==" ‘late 1800’s and amended in 1902,

_=.“ which provides that the town must

_=>~.- Pay a person who presides at a

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was still on the books.

MAN F31,54-94FO All of the excitement in The arrival of the pair on

Sunny skies, blue waters, and an unusual
wedding at Cisco Beach Saturday

Nantucket last Saturday morning
was concentrated at the public
beach at Cisco where approximately
150 to 200 persons, many of them
of the so-called hippie type and
others who were just simply
curious, gathered to witness one of
the most unusual weddings that
ever occurred here.

On the sands of Cisco Beach,
Mrs. Lillian Holmwood of
Philadelphia and Nantucket was
married to Peter A. Hall of
Nantucket in the matter of four or
five seconds by James Hayes of
Boston and San Francisco, who
described himself as Bishop to the
Brothers and Sisters in the
Resistence and the Armed Forces
of the Community of Jesus Christ.

The bride and groom made a
spectacular appearance at the scene
of their wedding, riding over a
rutted road on a single horse that
was led by a friend of the couple.
Mrs. Holmwood was attired in a
maxi-length brown beach coat with
a wide-brim hat adorned with
yellow tulips. She held a bouquet of
wild flowers. She was in her bare
feet.

horseback was the signal for a loud
demonstration of welcome by their
friends. Mrs. Holmwood, a divorced
mother of four, was also greeted by
her children, James, 13, William,
11, Amy, 9, and Michael, 7, who
arrived early at the beach.

After being helped from the
horse, the bride and groom were
escorted to the sandy beach and all
were requested to sit crossed-legged
on the sand during the brief,
ceremony.

The Bishop intoned these words:
“We are here to witness two people
demonstrate their love for each
other by this marriage.’’ The bride
and groom then placed rings on
each others finger and the BBishop
then said, “I pronounce you man
and wife.”

The couple then locked arms in a
tight embrace and fell backward
on the sand where they remained
for a few minutes. This was
supposed to be part of the
ceremony. Afterwards a reception
was held on the beach where the
bride and groom received the well
wishes of their friends.

Following the publicity given the

The groom was dressed in a long wedding in mainland newspapers,

black frock coat with tails and wore Town Clerk Charles Clark Coffin

an Ascot tie. He had on shorts and said he received a telephone call

What appeared to be tennis shoes. from Edward Kloza, director of the

His long hair was neatly combed Bureau of Vital Statistics in the

and was held in place by a garland office of the Secretary of the

of buttercups. Commonwealth, asking about the
qualifications of Bishop Hayes to
perform marriage ceremonies in this
state. Kloza asked the town clerk toHayes said he was a Methodis
forward a copy of the marriageBishop and that he had received
return when it is filed in the town permission from the Secretery o
clerk’s office. Mr. Coffin said that States’ office to perform thd
all he could tell Kloza was that ceremony.

Just as the wedding ceremony at Cisco Beach was about to begin, Bishop
Hayes asked the groom, Peter A. Hall, for the marriage license and Hall,
pulling on his whiskers, asked himself, ““What did I do with it?” He found
the license in his pocket and after producing it was married to Mrs. Lillian
Holmwood, who is smiling at him.

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The stately white pine forest off the Old
growth of the trees, now nearly

place for recreation.

‘
, Pond also

State Forest Lands Go
Back To Year 1912

The recent work in clearing areas
of the State Forest areas, off the
Yid South Road, known locally as
the State Pines, brought up
history of this development. While
there -will always be theories con-
cerning the extent and growth of
native timber on Nantucket
he presence of the pines may be

sed with certainty, as it has

recorded that two men, Jos-
iah Sturgis and Captain Edward
Gardner planted groves of pine
seedlings from Cape Cod in Nan-
tucket a century and a quarter ago.

Thoreau, during his visit to
Nantucket, mentioned the pine
groves, and the scraggly
yellow pine its indifferent
growth. An area near Hummock
became the site of one
of these pine groves, as did that
on Crooked Lane, known
for years as Crosby’s Pines.

In an interesting report issued
last year by the Nantucket Con-

has

trees

noted
and

section

> servation Foundation is the follow-

14 Ye

OCTOBER 8, 1970

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A group of nine local sportsmen returned yesterday from a 10-day
hunting trip to James Bay in the northern part of Canada spent shooting
geese. They report they had a very successful and enjoyable trip. In the
group were, left to right, Albert L. Silva, Charles Clark Coffin, James
Bartsch, Robert McGrath, Elmore Taylor, Maxwell T. Ryder, Kenneth
W. Holdgate, Charles Fisher and James K. Glidden.

South Road has been recently visited by State Foresters who have inspected
ifty Ore ] The 5 :
y fifty years old. The carpet of p:ne needles covers the ground and makes the area a most

attrac

ing:

land as
dates from
November 8th, 1912, when the
Nantucket Civic League deeded
two parcels of land in the so-called
“Sturgis Pine Lands” to the Com-
monwealth for forestry experimen-
tation. The deeds show that in
i the land to the Common-
wealth for one dollar ($1.00) for
forestry experimentation, there was
included an agreement to permit
the League to repurchase the land
within then (10) years at the price
it was sold to the Commonwealth
plus the latters expenditures thereon.
These two parcels of land totalled
approximately 33.725 acres and
47 and one quarter acres Of land

respectively.”

“The this

State

history of

Forest Land,

selling

The League never re-purchased
the land in question, although the
“Committee on Pine Lands” re-
mained active for many years anu
made annual reports. In 1924, its
report “Your committee on
Pine Lands begs leave to report

There has been no
activity on the part of ‘the State
in this district for a number of
years except an occasional visit of}
an indivdual representative of the}
Massachusetts Forestry Association

read,

is follows.

for the purpose of taking note of
the growth and condition of jhe
young seedlings in the several sect-
ions of pine lands deeded to the
State by the Civic League for the
cultivation of a better variety of
Pines that the scrub pines planted
many years ago. The experiment
has proven very successful and to-
day we have a fine grove of beauti-
ful young white pines growing on
the plot in the rear of the Agrig
cultural Fair Grounds, and wil
sincerely trust that no freak 3H
nature or careless Man will inteM|}
fere with their growth for thdg
our future generations will enj&
a noble forest which will not on®
be an ornament to the island, but

rightly managed will also be

source of income.

We have been
by the recent avtivity ,
State Road lest they distu®S” 4
few surviving trees set out a fe
years ago by the State along tf]
sides of the road, we were afraid thy
in making the road very much wide
than the old, it would disturb th
young trees, but I am informed
by the party in charge that they
will not be disturbed, we hope
this is true.

“A slight fire started by some
campers a short time ago destroyed
some seventy-five young trees. We
would recommend the League take
some action to place this matter
before the public to try to get
the citizens of the town to cooperats
with the League to preserve these
beautiful trees, it is a fact that
we now have to employ a patrol]
to prevent people from cutting
these young trees for Christma:
trees. It is a shame that this ha
to be done.”

During the early 1930’s a good
deal of work in clearing up the
underbrush in the State Pines was
done through the interest and di-
rection of the late William J. Blair
improving the appearance of th
zrove of white pines to a markéc

degree.

much disturb

Dorcas and Deborah, First-Day, Old Nantucket.
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NANTUCKET FIREPLACE Paul F. Whitten

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Tom Nevers looking northeast

Surfside, looking northeast

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SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 27, 1913

FOLGER FINED AGAIN

Judge Fitz-Randolph Finds Clinton S. F olger Guilty of
Further Violation of Auto-Exclusion Ordinance.
Court-room Crowded at Interesting Trial.

Notwithstanding the fact that the|
trial was held during ‘‘Nantucket’s |
supper hour,’’ the court-room was!
packed to the doors Tuesday after- |
noon, when two more charges were
against Clinton S. Folger}
for violation of the selectmen’s auto- |
mobile-exclusion vrder. The intense
interest which the automobile contro- |
versy has created drew several
dred persons to the court-room and a
number of ladies; were in evidence.
Long before the kour set for hearing

-4,50 o’ ¢dlock—-standing room
a premium, and for a full hour

the ¢rowd waited Whe pleasure of the

court, many persons being unable to }

gain entrance evel to the stairway.
William A. Mote, the town coun-

sel, who appeared {in behalf of the se-

| lectmen, was delayed somewhat»-anc~

Judge Fitz-Rand@4h did not have

preferred

| the case
was at

The ‘‘Horsemobile’’ making connections on Beach street, Mr. Folger adjust-)
In the background stand John C. Ring, Jr.,|
Charlie Lawrence, Charles Talford, Ernest Barney and two or three interested| Gibbs,
The man in the foreground (wearing fur coat) is Charles Jackson, a mech-}| cer and Hugh Lumbert.

ing the ‘‘transmission’’ (the rope).

lads.

anician from Falmouth who came down to overhaul the machine.

until his arrival about
5.30 o’elock. The defendant pleaded
not guilty to both charges, one of
which cited December 15
an offense was committed and the oth-

court called

er named/the 16th, when Folger drove },
}| automobile ordinance ?’’

away from the court-house in his ma-

chine. The first case had been con-

tinued at the request of the defendant,
that he might obtain counsel, and as }
a like offense was alleged in each

complaint, Judge Fitz-Randolph heard

them together.

The first witness examined was
Walter N. Chase, secretary of the se-
lectmen, who was on. hand with the
record books of the board, which con-
tained the vote passed when the se-

lectmen adopted the exclusion order. |
Counsel for the defendant objected to |

the admission of the records as evi-
dente, meizing thee the -cantrary tc
Article 1 of the Constitution of Mas-
sachusetts. and also to the Fourteenth

Amendment of the Constitution of the

hun- |

| proval upon it?’’

brougkt to the attention of the defend-

|} cluded, automobiles?’’

~ "They were-
cluded and upon
street intersecting. *’

as the date |

~——-| Morse said he did not care to argue

| until the case was all in,and the court |

| ruled that if the defendant were found H

| guilty he would be given opportunity |)

| to present the testimony. i

The defendant did not offer any evi- |
j idence. His attorney, however, called
attention to the statutes under which
the selectmen passed the ordinance.
_|‘*The legislature, when it passed the
act in 1909,’’ said he, ‘‘gave the se-
lectmen of towns authority to exclude
automobiles from certain streets—not
from all the streets, or from the
whole town. Although they did not
mention it in their exclusion order,
selectmen submitted to the Highway ee iene pt Pen apan et Tine vie
Commissioners?’’ asked Mr. Morse. rary Pi uded autos from the state
Te eee highway leading between town and
“nid she BE SR 2a Re a as Sconset, which the statutes say shall §

The eourt admitted
the records as evidence, and Select-
man Chase was questioned as to the
the procedure of the board in carrying
out the exclusion order.

‘*Was this ordinance passed by the

United States.

- with imi j
‘‘They did.’’ _8 criminal offense, and I claim

‘*“Was a copy of this regulation

there is every element of doubt in his
favor, because the selectmen’s exclu-
sion order is unconstitutional and not §
in accordance with the statutes.
man is always presumed to be _ inno-
cent until proved guilty beyond a rea-

QI?

ant, Mr. Folger?
“*It was. I mailed a copy to him.’’
‘*Were notices posted about the
streets from which the selectmen ex-

com

put to the trouble and expense of ap-

pealing to the higher courts, when the

selectmen’s regulation is not in accor-

| dance with the statutes as they stand
today.’’

Judge Fitz-Randolph then referred

to his decision of last week, again an- |__The ‘Hors -mobile’’ just as it passed onto the State Highway

| nouncing that inasmuch as_ the lower
courts had nothing to do with passing
upon the constitutionality of a law, it |
was not within his province to consid- |
er the question. He thereupon stated
that he would find Folger guilty of
violation of the regulation upon hoth
yicaviens aileped) but woaid- wittitiol |
the fine until after Mr.Morse present-
ed the testimony he desired, by which
he intended to show that ‘‘extenuat-

.ing circumstances’’ warranted a se-

vere penalty.
Witnesses called to the stand includ- |
ed Clara Brownell, Chief of Police ;
Clinton Orpin. Horace E.Spen-
The testi-
| mony introduced was in a way enter-
upon every street ex- taining, as it reyesied certale Be og
the corner. of every | %f ‘“Joy rides’’ in Folger s machine,
| when he had rented it for hire—the
Selectman-Hull was,yext in order. | 58m as he would rent a horse and
‘*Did you ‘make -\éfhe “complaint Carriage and accompany the party as |
— driver. |
After the examination of these wit- |
nesses was concluded, Mr. Morse rest- }
ed the case, stating that he did not
care to introduce any more evidence.
He then made his argument for the
purpose of showing why Folger should
receive a severe sentence.
‘<I am here, if it please Your Hon- |
or,’’ said he, ‘‘representing the se-
lectmen of Nantucket. I am here rep- |

resenting what I believe is a large
aaaiority of the people of Nantucket.

distance not

against Mr. Folger for violation of the

avoid.”

“‘Did you him operating
machine on Beach street??’

**T did.’’

**On the 15th of December???

‘*Yes,””

“At what hour?’’

““About 2.30 in the afternoon. ’’

Selectman Holmes testified that he
saw Folger operating his machine on
Broad and South Water streets on the because of a matter of fine or sen-
16th at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, eRe but because I believe great
_ Mr. Morse at this point desired to principles are involved in this case.
introduce a bit of sensational evi- As counsel for this town and friend of
dence, but the court would not admit | its people, I am interested in this mo-
it until after decision had been ren- | mentous question, and I want to see
dered, as it was intended to affect the the honor and dignity of Nantucket
punishment to be meted out should the upheld. The proceedings of this court
defendant be declared guilty. Mr. {| should command weight and respect

ec ‘and we should bear in mind that it is

Sten on small matters in the world

| thatiigreat decisions rise. {—

see his

I have come this great

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not be done. The defendant is charged }

‘a.

sonable doubt. This man should not be |

Jast Saturday | afternoon, with a full quota of passengers.

/NOVEMBER

| Report of the Address by Rev. M. §

Dudley, entiiled
A Talk on the World's Fair.

BY GRACE Bb. GARDNER.

[ would like to have tak
|School to Chicago with me.

there in imagination.

We go to tho fair by the way of

water. There are other ways of reach
. > Ue ays © each- ‘
, world ou his should

ing the Fair, but this is the ideal way.

iniles away. We take a boat

who live: in Brookline. Me laid ont
the Central Park in New York, a's».

from ine .
+ ee ~!| above every other ing i
city pier to the grounds. They were | i It 5 r build = a
A i ae = ‘grounds. It is a gra :
\laid out by Frederick Liw Oleastedalie 2 om Bi .
| people who control the fair have their

We soon come insight of the “White

[ftw 3D TY . eho ap .
City. The fist building we notice is oe “ne
tle thine’ ‘ | west fronts of the Agricultural building. |
tis the larges ety
We come to a cvlonnade connecting

\that of Liberal Arts.
|building in the world. It covers 30

acres of groun?, and is built of staff and |

iron. It was built in the short space of
two years. A few rods away the build-
ings which are made of staff look much
like marble. Anyone can make staff;

itis made of plaster of Paris, a little};

cement, and bemp fibre. You take a
mould and put on a Jayer of plaster of

Paris, with a very little cement, (not |
enough to color the plaster), and then |
soine hemp fibre. Nex: they put on anf
outer layer of plaster with just enough |

Jeement to make it adhere to the plaster,
mm :
Che pier comes out nearly half a mile

into the luke; itis quite a distance for

people to walk, eapecially when one is

jarouad the Fair Grounds. It was quite |

ja problem in the minds of the managers
jhow to transport people from the ‘ba
of the pier to the grounds, until some
(one invented a movable sidewalk, You
sit down ia a chair, and are carried to
the giounds without movi»g a step.
There are two movable si.lewalks. Oae
is an expres; aud the other is au accom.
adation.
Ws step off the movable sidewalk,
and come toa colounade made of :t ff.
|There are two rows of pillars with
enough space betwee them fur five or
six people to walk abreast. This is
called the Peristyle. At one end is the
Casino, +n1 at the ot’ er is the Music
Hall. The Casino isa delig'tful place
in which to rest, after the farigue of the
| day. In the Music [Hall entertainments
/are given,

jBong {0 speacd tue whole day in wa'king |

lthe west is Machinery Hall a |

ti oe : | at is M: ry Hall and Avunex. |

The Fair grounds are notin the heart) psy ectly ; ‘ : ae

fot the city of Chicago, but come seven irectly opposite us is the Aduninistra-
2 ? ltion building. The great dome towers

If we step through the central arcu ut
| the Peristyle and look back we shail see
ithe names of all the States, aud rows of
jstatuary extending along the top of the

‘|Peristyle. In the centre is a beautiful
group of statuary representing Colum-|
‘\busas the Discoverer. The QO urt of
| Honor is very beautiful. It contains |
jmich fine statuary.

Before us is a statue. It faces the

west. (‘Westward the course of the

empire takes iis way.”) It is a statae
ot the Republic. To the right of us i-
the building ot Libesal Arts, rising fan
aloft. Further to the right is the bult-

en the whole .; x ss sy 4s
ing of Electricity, and the building of

But this y,;
2 Mines and Miners. Ta ct see other
jwas not possible. I can only take you 4 : Lh haa conde on

buildings farther of. On the left is the
building of Ag iculture, with statues on
top representing Atlas holding the

Far.her toward

offices here. To the south, west and}
north is the lagoon, crossed by many
bridges. Let us go aloay the north and

that building with Machinery Hall, We

| go upstairs to reach the centre of this
leofonnade. ‘Tu the front is an obelisk

copied alter Cleopatra’s needle on the
‘hawes embankment in London, In
front of this is the lagoon. Hur away to
the north is a building with a deme,
somewhat recembling that of the Ad-
ministration building, only smaller.

m?

| 'Phis is the Lilinois building.

3ut the central point of interest is he |
Court of Honor, Along. the parapets |
of the lagoon and bridges are groups of}
statuary, mostly of animals; deer, polar |
bears, lions, tigers, and others. |

As we go back and stand in trout of |
the Peristyle, looking westward we sce
a fountain. There is a sheet of water
flowing from the fountain into the la-
goon, giving one the impression that the
lagoon is supplied by this fountain. Ts |
the left are two oiber fountains, and
from many points the water spurts in|
jets from two to ten feet high.

fj

Captain Coffin Recalls Wreck
| of Bark Hazard in 1881.

| Editor of The Inquirer and Mirror:
It was with keen interest that I read
\the account of the loss of the bark
| Hazard in the columns of the Mirror
lof January 25th. My father was one of
the crew of the Nantucket Lightship
| (then -alled the South Shoal Light-
|ship) and as a boy of 15 I listened
| attentively to all the stories connected
| with the loss of the Hazard, and the
}rescue of a part of her crew.

The raft that second mate Olsen had
constructed was sighted early in the
| afternoon of February 15th by Roland
Spencer, the youngest member of the
llightship crew. Spencer was said to
have had keen eye-sight and was gen-
erally the first to raise a sail, or
wreckage, even to a dead whale.
| His sighting of this raft was treated
at first as if he had seen an ordinary
piece of wreckage, but Spencer in-

|
ito his waving something. Late in the

afternoon, Capt. James decided to send
a boat to the object.

After the two men had been taken
\from the raft, it was decided to cut

| sisted he could see a man on it, even |

And how _I did drink in all that was |
}said by those two sailors, especially
| their description of building the raft
|that saved their lives—no doubt hav-
ling vision of when I might have to}
| build one.

Olsen told of how he got the spar |
lashed and had them partly over the |
rail amidships, and a tackle from the |
main yard for launching. Then he
gathered together gratings, and planks
that had been used for beds for the
long-boat.

Then he told of a heavy sea lifting
a hatch loose, and if it had not been
for that hatch they never could have}
held on to the raft, as he had it well
lashed and lines to all corners of the |

raft.
Olsen was a fine specimen of a mate |
| with a heavy mustache and ruddy com- |
plexion. He wore a short pea jacket,
fur coat, and red handkerchief around
his neck (called by one of the No. 4
|| boys a Western Ocean muffler.) He
was surely a hero in our young minds. |

Sincerely yours, |
Everett B. Coffin. |
| 3506 Beach Drive,

|| Seattle, Wash.

\the body of the dead seaman loose |

| .
from the raft, as they did not care to
|

| yowed towards the ship, Spencer de-

\take it to the ship. After they had |

elared he could still see the body float- }

| ing on the surface of the ocean, so the

| boat put back and found that the}

| air in the oil-skin clothing was keeping
| the dead seaman afloat. The clothing
| was cut and the body sunk.

| There was a period of gloom aboard
lthe Lightship, but Sheridan, one of
| the rescued men, proved a valuable
| addition to the crew, as he was a witty

| .
Irishman and a good singer, and so the |

|ecrew was even more lonely when he
| left the ship.

In those days a ship-wreck was a
| very important event to the boys of
|my time, and ship-wrecked sailors
|were hailed as heroes. We always

| knew where to find them—the crew— |

lat the American House, and the cap-
tains and officers at the store of Jo-
|seph B. Macy, on Straight Wharf—

known to the boys as “Joe B’s.”
At the American House we were

room windows. Mr. Macy was & kindly
gentleman and, as an underwriter’s
agent, he would get all the facts from
the captains of stranded vessels.

Mr. Macy would allow a few in his
| small office, then he would come to
lthe door and say: “Boys, I’m sorry,

but the room is full.”
Olsen and Sheridan were taken to

| admitted on that evening.

allowed to look in through the dining |

\the American House, and in the eel

|
|

\ning a delegate from No. 4’s Engine}
| Company came and took them to tke}
| Club room. Boys of my age were not
| allowed in No. 4’s, but as my fathers
was one of the Lightship crew, I aie?

!

So SS ee

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Eclipse
Fans Jam
Nantucket

By Ken O. Botwright.- Globe Staff

NANTUCKET — About half of the 447
passengers who trooped off the steamer
from the mainland here yesterday after-
noon looked like members of an arctic ex-
pedition. The rest resembled refugees
from the Woodstock festival.

But in fact they comprised the van-
guard of close to 4500 visitors expected on
this little island resort to witness today’s
total eclipse of the sun.

If the forecast of mostly clear weather
holds up, this venerable community of
stately whaling mansions, grey-shingled
cottages and cobbled streets should prove
the best eclipse watching spot on the At-
lantic seaboard. And the pilgrims should
be rewarded with the spacé spectacular of
the age when the moon’s shadow obscures
the sun at 1:46 p.m. for two minutes, six
seconds.

Most passengers off the S.S. Nantuc-
ket were young—-students in their teens
and twenties—with wind-blown hair and
beards. Garbed in jeans, army surplus and
blanket shawls, they toted guitars, sleep-
ing bags and cameras.

Their older shipmates were. bun-
died up in fur-lined parkas or heavy
overcoats. They also sported cameras—
and some led little children and big dogs.

Taxi driver Alvin Peterson, a portly
man in a red and black -kumberjacket,
watched fascinated as the assortment of
people disembarked, chattering about lens
speeds and how and where to watch the
eclipse.

“Biggest crowd of. off-islanders I

seen since the Fourth of July,” he STEAMER

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in the path of totality, Nantucket

Directly

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Nantucket I slan

By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD

©) New York Times News Service.

A strange midday darkness moved across much of the North
American continent yesterday as the sun, moon and earth fell into
alignment for a solar eclipse, one of nature’s rarest spectacles.

Nantucket

View Ideal

By JAMES MAHONY ?//44,°7 /4 “
HT Staff Reporter a NS BR

NANTUCKET—‘‘Spectacular . « »
Unbelievable . . . Fantastic .. . Breath-
taking.”

Those were some of the words used
to describe the total eclipse over Nan-
tucket Island yesterday. And they ap-
plied equally well to the mammoth
sea and air traffic jams that choked
the island with thousands of visitors.

Nantucket and Monomoy Island
were the only places in New England
where the eclipse was total. And why
did eclipse watchers come to Nan-
tucket, when they could stay home and
see a 99 per cent eclipse?

Because, said Bradford Washburn,
director of the Boston Museum of
Science, ‘‘there is all the difference in
the world’ between 99 per cént and
totality.

As for Bradford Washburn,

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The shadow caused by the moon
crossing the face of the sun swept a
northeasterly path from southern
Mexico up the east coast of the
United States and out past the mari-
time provinces of Canada.

The total eclipse, first one to be
seen over heavily populated areas of
the U.S. since 1925, was greeted with
curiosity and passing awe and in the
holiday spirit of thousands of sight-
seers crowding beaches, towns and
islands where the viewing was most
favorable.

Where the eclipse was total, the sun
disappeared and a bright irregular
halo appeared around the black disc of
the moon, The halo—the boiling gases
of the sun’s outer atmosphere, or
corona—is clearly visible only during
total eclipses.

Along most. of the eclipse’s. path of
totality, except in the southeastern
United States and in Nova Scotia, the
skies were generally clear so that
both astronomers and ordinary sight-
seers could get. a good look at what
has been called the “‘eclipse of the
century.”

Its occurrence, long predicted and
prepared for, neither stopped nor start-
ed wars, as some ancients believed.

the man who thought of the
Eclipse’ Special, he was
thrilled beforehand with the
thought of seeing his second

total eclipse.. And he was |

equally thrilled afterward.

“You can’t beat perfection,”
he said.

But for the most part the
huge throng at the airport
came to Nantucket to see
what Washburn described as
“one of the great sights’’ of a
lifetime.

The airport manager,
Frederick H. . Smith, said
there were 250 private planes
parked at the airport and an-
other 40 at Miacomet Golf
Club, where there is a private
landing strip.

At 12:55, there were 40

planes waiting to land, The
airport closed, and planes
were directed to Martha’s
Vineyard to view the eclipse
from there.

STATE POLICE Sgt. Rich-
ard Bellevue had all available
men handling bumper-to
bumper traffic. Two fire
trucks were stationed at the
airport in case of an emer-
gency, along with a Coast
Guard» plane and Explorer
Post 95, a search and rescue
unit to provide first aid and
ambulance service.

d View
Of Eclipse

Sequence photos of eclipse were
taken by Herald Traveler Photogra-
pher Warren Patriquin on Nantucket
with 500C Hasselblad camera equipped
with a 250 mm. Sonnar lens, on Kodak
Tri-X film, F4.5 at 1/500 sec. with an
exposed piece of film as a filter. The
total eclipse picture was_taken at F5.6
at 1/125 sec, without filter.

| flickered across the

There was, too. An eerie
darkness crept over the land.
Some women said they felt
light-headed. Shadow bands
white
walls of a shed at Nantucket
airport.

Then seconds before total-
ity, the planet Venus burst in-
to view to the left and above
the darkened sun.

There was a _ fleeting
glimpse of Baily’s Beads —
the sun shining through the
jagged edges caused by the
moon’s mountains — then a
sudden brilliant flare on the
upper right corner of the sun.

This was the spectacular
Diamond Ring. The sunburst
at one side and:a circlet of
light around the moon.

“ISN’T IT GLORIOUS,”
cried Washburn. Then, to the
spectators around. “See the
sunset. All the way around.”

And there it was — around
every inch of the horizon —
the sky glowing as though
there were a setting sun.

It was dark, The lights at

| Nantucket airport were turned

on. Automobiles in town had
their headlights on. It was
early afternoon, 1:46 p.m., to
be exact, but it was dark.
Now, in addition to the bril-
liant Venus, you could see the
planet Mercury dimly glowing

| to the right and below the
eclipse. The corona of the sun

flared out, only one five hund-
red thousandths as brilliant as
the sun, but a never to be
forgotten sight.

/
‘Spectacular

CAMERAS OF ALL types
clicked on all sides. From
men, women and children
gathered at Nantucket Airport
came a steady stream of ex-
clamations: *‘Exciting. Isn’t it
thrilling. I’ll never forget it.”

Totality was coming to a
close. Once again the brilliant
Diamond Ring flared and was
gone.

Hundreds of persons burst
into applause, Auto horns
honked appreciation of na-
ture’s lavish display.

In seconds, it seemed the
sky was brighter. The gulls
that had flown to the moors
suddenly. reappeared. The
shadow that was on the land
grew lighter and everything
seemed more normal.

BUT IT WAS FAR from
normal in the Nantucket Air-
port tower. There extra traf-
fic controllers were trying to
cope with a problem they
never had before and never
wanted again. Planes were
stacked all around the island
before the eclipse and there
was a runaway traffic jam
afterward.

The runways, said a Nan-
tucket fire captain, were like
the Southeast Expressway.
With planes taking off at 20 to
30 second intervals, there still
was nearly a 30 minute wait
for takeoff by a Northeast
Airlines Eclipse special that
carried Washburn, newsmen
and the general public to view
the phenomenon.

There were 1,000 flights in
and out of the little airport

SCIENCE MUSEUM staff on ‘Nantucket.

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By"Charles F'Sayle

Last Thursday,
the ice extended
a couple miles to
the southard
from the south |
shore of the
island, as well as
across the Sound
to the north.
Two large New
Bedford fisher-
men who had
come im
Tuesday, to escape the easterly
breeze that went up the coast
Wednesday became trapped here by
the ice. The M.V. “Uncatena’”’ was
able to get in Tuesday, but low
temperatures and strong ‘nor-west
winds packed the ice against the
north side of the island and in
between the jetties so she was
unable to get in again till Sunday.

fhursday the Coast Guard sent

/Aheir tug ‘“Towline’’ over and she

managed to get into the harbor.
Friday the “‘Towline’’ tried to break
out so the ‘‘Uncatena’”’ could get in
and the fishermen could get out.
They were able to get about as far
as the end of the eastern jetty and
then stuck and had to turn back
into the harbor. The ‘“Uncatena”’
came over Thursday and Friday
and when about a mile and a half
off the jetties, hung up and finally
\had to turn back for Woods Hole.
Thursday, though the “*Towline”’
|\was able to break her way in, the
“Uncatena” was unable to follow
her through the heavy ice.

Sunday a light to moderate
|sou’west wind came and slacked the
lice a bit, with the help of milder
temparatures. The “Towline” broke

her way out again and met the
‘“‘Uncatena”’ about a mile and a half
out beyond the jetties, and started
to break a channel for the larger
vessel. The going was a little slow
for a mile but when just beyond the
bell buoy the “Uncatena’”’ passed
the tug and walked straight in with
no more trouble, the first time in
since Tuesday.

_ take valve.

“Big Day” for Nantucket March 7 ‘

_ Eclipse of sun will be total here

About 3:30 p.m. Sunday the
tanker ““N.W. Gokey” came in with -
no trouble. The ‘‘Towline’’ had
earlier broken the channel into the
tanker pier from Brant Point
channel. After that the two
fishermen had no trouble getting
out and on their way to the
grounds.

The “Gokey”, pumped out and
left for the mainland during the
night. Moderate weather continued
and the ice slowly softened.

* * * * ”

The scallop fleet are still tied up
as of Tuesday, but the boys are
hoping for a fresh breeze easterly
to blow the ice out of Madaquet
Harbor so they can get going again.
Madaquet is full and the Sound, so
it will need a good breeze to get
the Sound cleared first or it will
keep coming down through
Madaguet. It will take a little more
time to clear the harbor in town as
that is frozen pretty solid and the
ice is wedged in by the various
points in the harbor. A good sou-
west wind and ebb tide will flow
the ice out between Commercial
| Wharf and Brant Point as it has
| been broken by the “Towline,” but
| it will take a lot more to clear out

down to the Nantucket Shipyard.
* oo * * x

||the beach on the south side of Eel
Point had a hole stove in her side,
||}as the ice field pushed up onto the
|\|beach. Most of the fleet have lost
| near a month, out of the 5 month

|
One scallop boat, hauled up on
|

season, and no telling yet what, if
any damage has been done to the
scallops by the freeze.

Clams clog strainer on Islander
causing 2-hour late arrival

The M.V. “Islander” was about tw
hours late yesterday in arriving a
Nantucket after encountering a mechanica
difficulty on the trip across the Sound. The
engines were overheating and the boat had
to literally crawl on its way to the island
and did not dock at Steamboat Wharf
until 3:48 p.m. It was due at 1:30.

After reaching Nantucket, the engineer |
opened the water in-take valve to check the |
Strainers and he was the most surprised
individual when he found the strainers were |
clogged with—of all things—clams! It
would not have* been unusual to find
the strainers clogged -with slush ice or
debris, but clams—that was something
that was totally unexpected.

Authority Chairman Alexander M. Craig’
Jr. said there was a possibility that in going
into or leaving Vineyard Haven that the
boat might have gone near a mound of
clams and sucked them into: the water in-
Feb 4A IF 70

If there is any day on the 1970 calendar
when an extraordinary event is to occur it
would be safe to say the Saturday, March
7, is that date. On this day there will take
place one of nature’s most spectacular
phenomenons—the total eclipse of the
sun—and Nantucket will be the only place
in the northern States where the observer
may witness the complete event. It will be
the last total eclipse of the sun visible in
North America in the 20th century. .

The moment for the total eclipse—the
blotting out of the sun by the moon—will
be at 1:47 in the afternoon. The path of
totality actually begins in the Pacific Ocean,
2 degrees south of the equator in longitude
148 degrees 33 minutes west, and then
move in a band 90 miles or so wide,
slanting diagonally across the Pacific and on
over Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico to
Florida’s northwestern portion, continuing
on over part of Georgia and the Carolinas,
thence out into the Atlantic at Norfolk,
Virginia. The path then sweeps up to
Nantucket, to proceed northeast to Nova
Scotia and Newfoundland. Thus, on this
Island the totality may. be studied in its
detail, and no other point in the nation
north of Virginia will have this advantage.

As was the case in 1925, when the last
total eclipse was observed on Nantucket,
absence of man-made smog in the Island’s
ocean air makes Nantucket an ideal place
for observation of one of the rarest and
most excitirig events of nature. In an article
written by Dr. Charles H. Smiley, of Brown
University, which appeared in the magazine
Star and Telescope two years ago, the
noted astronomer stated:

“Since the moon’s inner shadow will
narrowly miss heavily populated New
Jersey, New York and New England,
amateur and professional astronomers will
probably crowd Nantucket. If the weather
is good, the ‘standing room only’ sign may
be up, for totality will not be visible from
Martha’s Vineyard or Cape Cod (except
Monomoy Point.)’’

It is expected that the airlines and
Steamship Authority will make available an
increased schedule so that people who do
not expect to find over night
accommodations may be able to come to
Nantucket just for the event itself. The
total phase of the eclipse on Nantucket will
last about 1.9 minutes, to occur at 1.47
o’clock in the afternoon, and the sun will
be at a perfect angle for the observation.

Bis ei

Extensive erosion at Cisco caused by winter storms.

The southeastern side of the Island will
present the best of vantage points...

Last weekend, Paul A. Valleli, the
representative for the northeast section of
the Astronomical League, was on
Nantucket, to confer with the Chamber of
Commerce as to accommodations for
lodging and eating, and transportation
schedules, as well as observing sites for the
many amateur astronomers who plan. to
come to Nantucket.

Mr. Valleli stated: ‘‘Most of these
astronomers are members of the
Astronomical League, a _ non-profit,
educational federation of Astronomical
societies from throughout the United States.
The ATM’s of Boston is such a society.
Many of the Leagues’ 5000 members live
in the Northeast. Some will want to

perform scientific investigations, some will |.

make measurements, and others will come
with their families to view the awesome
spectacle of the Sun blotted out by the
Moon.”

He went on to say: “I expect the great
majority of observers will go to Boston or
Hyannis and wait until Friday evening or
Saturday morning before crossing to the
island. Others, such as myself, will have to
arrive earlier in order to set up more
complicated instruments. Observers who are
traveling light will probably prefer the
speed of an airplane. Those who have
telescopes or large cameras will obviously |
have to take the steamer.”

Margaret Harwood, former Director of
the Maria Mitchell Observatory, who was
so active during the 1925 eclipse on
Nantucket, has announced her intention of
being on hand with a group of astronomers
from Cambridge.

The Maria Mitchell Observatory, with
Miss Dorrit Hoffleit, the Director in charge,
and the Loines Telescope structure on
Winn’s Hill, will be headquarters for the
professional astronomers.

One aspect of the unusual occasion was
summed up by Mr. Valleli: “The greatest
obstacle to all of us at the present time, is
our paradoxical New England weather. The
success of our special mission, like a
Sunday picnic, is predicated on good
conditions. The stakes, however, I believe,
are much greater. For this reason, we are
keeping in close contact with Dr. Edward
Brooks of Boston Colleges’ Weston
Observatory, a meteorological expert who is
also an amateur astronomer.”

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Noontime Darkness

The shadow of the moon, blocking the sun to cause today's total
eclipse, will sweep at some 1500 miles per hour from north of
Tahifi to west of Ireland. Passing along the U.S. east coast, it will
affect more Americans than any previous eclipse. There will not
be a comparable eclipse until the year 2024, Total for two min-
utes, six seconds at Nantuckef, the eclipse will reach 96.5 per

cent of totality at Boston at 1:46 p.m.

To probe changes in upper atmosphere during the total eclipse,
rockets will go up from Florida and Virginia.

Crowds begin jamming Nantucket

* NANTUCKET
Continued from Page 1

“Don’t blame ’em for
coming though. Saw an
eclipse myself when I was
12 and I’m not likely to
ever forget it.”

The expected invasion of
eclipse-watchers is severe-
“straining the resources

~few hotels and res-
“hat are open this
time of the year. Four lo-
tels and 14 guest houses
were booked solid _ last
night and the Nantucket
Chamber of Commerce was
frantically phoning house-
holders, begging for spare
rooms.

The Congregational
Church came to the rescue
by offering its parish hall
as’a dormitory. And the
Methodist
nounced a_ special
breakfast this morning and
a bean supper tonight.

Church an-

eclipse

Mrs. Susan King, moth-

erly room-hunter at the
Chamber of Commerce in-
formation center; worried
that after the arrival of
close to 200 more visitors
-} on the motor vessel Unca-
a tena last night some

youngsters might wind up
sleeping outdoors. “And
there’s a law against that,”
she fretted.

3ut Nantucket’s
police force waived the
sleeping-out for this
week-end anyway. ‘“Any-
body brave enough to
sleep in a tent or sleeping
bag in this weather is wel-
come to do it,” said Sgt.
William Burdick.

A spokesman
Woods Hole, Martha’s
Vineyard and Nantucket
Steamship Authority esti-
mated about 1500 people
would be arriving by the
vessels Nantucket and Un-
catena. Both ships, which
make one daily round trip |
apiece from Woods Hole,

13-man

law

for the

were jammed yesterday

and will be again today.

Automobile berths were
sold out both days and pas-
senger tickets were being
dispensed on a first-come-
first-serve basis.

To accommodate the
eclipse crowd, the authori-
ty changed the Nantucket
Schedule for today. The
Island ferry will leave
Woods Hole at 8:30 a.m. in-
stead of 10:15 a.m. and re-
turn at 4 p.m. instead of
bp ts Bie a

Ae:

Even so authority or-
cials surmise that quite a
few visitors may be stuck
on the island until Monday.

Out at Nantucket’s post-
card-size airport, Manager
Frederick H. Smith braced
for a possible arrival of
3000 persons by air before
eclipse time today.

“We could get as many
as 500 private planes from
all over #he Atlantic sea-
board,” said 62-year-old
Smith. “Hope they don’t all
try to land at once.”

He said three airlines
that serve the island —
Executive, Mass. Air and

Cape and Islands — will
be ferrying passengers in
from Boston, New York and
Cape Cod “as fast as they
can load up.” He predicted
the three lines may fly as
many as 50 round trips
compared to the eight they

normally make this time of |

year.

“On top of that we’ve got
charter planes bringing in
parties of scientists and
other visitors from New
York and elsewhere,” he
added.

The airport stayed open
all night to receive planes
— it normally closes at 11
p.m. — and the control
tower staff was beefed up.
And as a_ precautionary
measure the Coast Guard
assigned a helicopter to pa-
trol the airport while three
boats took up station as
rescue craft offshore.

While amateur astrono-
mers readied their cameras
and homemade pinhole
viewers or exposed film,
professional scientists as-
sembled at the red brick
Maria Mitchell observatory
on Vestal street and the
newer grey-shingled
Loines_ Hill Observatory,
ona wiid-swept promon-
tory at the outskirts of the
town of Nantucket.

ARNING

A word to the wise (and not-so-wise) on to-
day’s solar eclipse:

Do not look at it directly under any circum-

stances. It will lead only to eye damage and even
blindness.

Also, doctors urge parents to keep children
indoors for the duration, since they might “sneak
a peak” with the naked eye.

Doctors say the safest way to see the eclipse
is to watch it on television.

The best times to view
blackout in N.E. area

The following is the New England timetable for the
total solar ‘eclipse today:

All Times P.M. Eastern Standard Time
Locations in Path of Totality—Massachusetts
Partial Partial
Phase Eclipse
begins ends

12:32 2:58
12:31 2:58

Totality
begins ends

1:46-1:47
1:46 1:48

Totality Total
duration
49 secs

2 mins

Location
Monomoy Point
Nantucket

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Mrs. ARTHUR E. PRATT
25 PEARL STREET
BRIDGEWATER
MASSACHUSETTS 02324

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Mr. George H. Gardner, 2d., of this
town, graduated from the Chicago Hom@o-
pathic Medical Iustitute on the 26th ult.,
of which institution J. 8. Mitchell, M. D.,
formerly of Nantucket, is president. Mr.
Gardner has been studying in Cincinnati,
O., and Chicago, Ill., for the past two

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yoars, and we tender him our warmest con-
gratulations upon the successful comple-
tion of the course.

Dr. George H. Gardner, who has for

some time been practising medicine in
Baltimore, Md., has come to Nantucket
and will open an office in the ‘Lodge
Building,” in the rooms recently occupied
by Dr. Alexander G. Coffin, dentist. Dr.
Gardner is a former townsman—a real Nan-
tucketer and is a graduate of the Chicago
Homeopathic Medical College. We wish
him success. Dees 8 Ib FS

}

} to Residence, Milk St., corner of Saratega.

G. H. GARDNER, M. D.,:

Graduate of Chicago Homeopathic Medical College
OF CHICAGO, ILL, |
OFFICE, - MAIN STREET, |
|

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NEXT WEST OF PACIFIU BANK,

LES &

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| Puorograrn.—Mr, veg tar.

fof Boston, will be in a. a Seam
preparations for taking the bi
the assembléd Coffins,
formed, will be sold by subscription. He
will also be prepared during his stay to
make large photographic views of private
or public buildings
price list for the sam
vertising columns, It is an e
portunity for those desiring |
of their homes.

day, to make
big Picture of
which, we are in-|

; and announces his |
€ ina card in our ad-
xcellent op-
‘ arge pictures
Aug bG~ / SF / |

Na lp h Cardner
Son eo f Arther Hinton
Gondonerand Ma ry

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RECOVERING.—Dr, George H. Gardner,
who has been suffering * the past week
from a severe attack of diphtheria,
hus so far recovered as to be about his
office and expects to be out iu a few days.
The doetor undoubtedly contracted the
disease from u patient who died with it,
and upon perceiving the first symptoms
that it had fastened upon him, promptly
shut himself up in his office to ayoid
spreading the disease. He has been at-
tended by Drs, Marsh and Pitman and has
also received the attention of two emi-
nent physicians visiting the island. At
one time his recovery was considered
doubtful, but skillful treatment supple-
mented by the best of care has brought
him round all right. Great eredit is due
Mr. Ellenwood B. Coleman, who at a time
when money could not precure an at-
¢endant volunteered his services and re-
mained alone with him two days and
nights until a trained nurse.was secured
from Boston. His office has been **quar-
unteened,” Che disease confined there and
we believe effectually stamped out, and
at the present time there is not, so far az
we know, a cuse of diphtheria on the isl-
and. Our exemption from this epidemic
is 2 matter for tongratulation in view of
the fact that it is raging with great sever-
ity in many of the cities and towns
abroad.

Cearge H Cardnen M D
wag Uncleot
Grace Bre wn Gandner
He was drewned
In Hum moch Paoyd

|

May 10,184
OBITUARY.

RALPH GARDNER, son of Arthur H-
and Mary M. Gardner, was taken by
the mysterious hand of death, on Mon-
day evening last, and led from his suf-
fering physical fate to a restful sphere.
Death is not the enemy but the friend
and certain heir of all mankind. No
one can afltirm thai death is not a
greater blessing than life, but in the
common mold patriarch and child

stone rolled against the gates of the
sepulchre tells us of the termination of

}a life in this world. Every white ‘cas-

| grave must have its grief. Every part-

| assnaged with words of pathos nor by

| scholar and a good boy. A bereaved

ket sugyvests a translated life. Wemay
indulge no fears for the future ef a
young spirit that has fulfilled its. mis-
sion, resting in the calm and. still em-/
brace of the shadowy angel. Every

mingle together im silent rest. o
|
|

ing with the loved of Earth its pangs
of sorrow. Grief and sorrow are not

the flow of tears. Ralph Gardner was
a promising child. He was a bright

family mourn his departure. His place }
in the household can never be filled.
Time alone can lift the burden of the
funeral hour, and uutil the lessening

| needs and duties of each day shall make
| his little grave a place of peaceful joy

to those who mourn his absence. May

} the love which binds other hearts in

pure affection, and consolations which |
bring hope to other lacerated lives |
afford such healing balm te the afflicted |
parents and bereft sister of little Ralph’
that the clonds of fate may be dispelled, |
and their loss counted as his gain.

I will believe that, though unseen and voiceless)
Thy blessed presence is about me still; .
That Thou over every step of mine rejoicest {
That leads me onward to the heavenly hill. .

|

:

| My spirit-love! my seraph-guardian' ever
a, Peg

| Help me to tread the path that hes before me,

Hover around my dark and lonely way; ;
Thongh the thick veil of flesh and sonse may |
sever
My soul from Thine for many a weary day,

if Thou may’st never bend ‘in brightness “o'er |
mc
While in its honse of clay ny spirit dwells,

And reach the world where there are no fare-
wells.

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Mr. George H. Gardner, 2d., of this

town, graduated from the Chicago Hommo-
pathic Medical Iustitute on the 26th ult.,
of which institution J. S. Mitchell, M. D.,
formerly of Nantucket, is president. Mr.
Gardner has been studying in Cincinnati,
O., and Chicago, Ill., for the past two
yoars, and we tender him our warmest con-
gratulations upon the successful comple-
tion of the course.

ERR

Dr. George H. ee eo has for
some time been practising medicine in
Baltimore, Md., has come to Nantucket

and will open an office in the ‘Lodge
Building,” in the rooms recently occupied
by Dr. Alexander G. Coffin, dentist. Dr.
Gardner isa former townsman—a real Nan-
tucketer and is a graduate of the Chicago
Homeopathic Medical College. We wish
him success. 8 1b KS

Dec:

G. H. GARDNER, M. D.,

| Graduate of Chicago Homeopathic Medical College |

OF CHICAGO, ILL,

OFFICE, - MAIN STREET.

PACIFIC BANK,
} Sw” Residence, Milk St., corner of Saratoga.

LES &

| NEXT WEST OF

| PHorograrn.—Mr, Geor aH.
4 G
lof Boston, will be in town to- ~day a

i

to make)

preparations for taking the big picture of|

the assembléd Coffins, which,
formed, will be sold by subscription.
will also be prepared during his stay to
|make large photographic views of sieivaie
lor public buildings, and announces his
price list for the same in a card in our ad-
vertising columns, Itis an excellent op-
eae those pete large pistunds
of their homes. / ;
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we are in-
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RECOVERING.—Dr, George H. Gardner,
who has been suffering’ the past week
from a severe attack of diphtheria,
hus so far recovered as to be about his
office and expects to be out in a few days.
The doetor undoubtedly contracted the
disease from a patient who died with it,
and upon pereeiving the first symptoms
that it had fastened upon him, promptly
shut himself up in his office to avoid
spreading the disease. He has been at-
tended by Drs, Marsh and Pitman and has
also received the attention of two emi-
nent physicians visiting the island. At
one time his recovery was considered
doubtful, but skillful treatment supple-
mented by the best of care has brought
him round all right. Great credit is due
Mr. Ellenwood B. Coleman, who at a time
when money could not precure an at-
¢endant volunteered his services and re-
mained alone with him two days and
nights until a trained nurse was secured
from Boston. His office has been ‘quar-
nunteened,” Che disease confined there and
we beljeve effectually stamped out, and
at the present time there is not, so far az
we know, a cuse of diplitherin on the isl-
and. Our exemption from this epidemic
isa matter for etongratulation in view of
the fact that it is raging with great sever-
ity in many of the cities and towns
abroad.

George ty Cardnen MD
wag Uncoleof
Gerace Bre wih Gandnen
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Om

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OBITUARY.
RALPH GARDNER, sou of Arthur
and Mary M. Gardner, was taken by
the mysterious hand of death, on Mon-
day evening last, and led from his suf-
fering physical fate to a restful sphere.
Death is not the enemy but the friend
and certain heir of all mankind. No
one can affirm thai death is not a
greater blessing than life, but in the
common mold patriarch and child
mingle together silent rest. The
stone rolled against the gates of the
sepulchre tells us of the termination of
a life in this world. Every white ‘cas-
ket sugyests a translated life. Wemay
indulge uo fears for the fature of a
young spirit that has fulfilled its mis-
sion, resting in the calm and still em-
brace ot the angel. Every
grave must haveits grief. Every part-
ing with the loved of Earth its pangs
} of sorrow. and sorrow are not
| assnaged with words of pathos nor by
the flow of tears. Ralph Gardner was |
a promising child. He was a bright
scholar aud a good boy. A bereaved |
family mourn his departure. His place |
in the household can never be filled.
| Time alone can lift the burden of the
funeral hour, and uutil the lessening
| needs and duties of each day shall make
' his little grave a place of peaceful joy
| to those who mourn his absence. May
| the love which binds other hearts in
pure affection, and consolations which
bring hope to other lacerated lives |
| afford such healing balm te the afflicted |
| parents and bereft sister of little Ralph’
that the clouds of fate may be dispelled, |
| and their loss counted as his gain.

in

:

shadowy

Grief

| I will believe that, thong ch unseen and voiceless,
| "Thy blessed presence is about me still;
That Thou over every step of mine rejoicest
That leads me onward to the heavenly bil.

| My spirit-love! my seraph-guardian' ever
Hover around my dark and lonely Way;
Thongh the thick veil of flesh and s nse may
sever
} My soul from Thine for many a weary day.

(f Thou may’st never bend ‘in brightness oer
me
While in its house of clay my spirit dwells,
| Help me to tread the path that hes before me,
And reach the world where there wre 10 fare-
wells.

|
|
|
|
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Captain Owen Spooner — originator of the navigational method known as Sunset
Longitude. (Painted by James Walter Folger, gift of Grace Brown Gardner).

A number of valuable acquisitioius have been added to the
museum’s collections during the year. Miss Grace Brown Gardner,
with her usual thoughtfulness, has made it possible for the asso-
ciation to obtain the portrait of her grandfather, Captain William
8. Gardner, master of whaling and merchant vessels; the James
Walter Folger painting of Captain Owen Spooner; the Chinese
lacquered sewing box and spool holder owned by her grand-
mother, Mrs. Charlotte Coffin Gardner, who accompanied Captain
rardner on his voyages; several chairs of antique value; a collec-
tion of 156 books, including a number of volumes about Nantucket
history, and some genealogical material, not the least of which
is a partial diary kept by her father, Arthur Gardner, editor,
author and historian, and town official.

Held Annual Meeting

The annual meeting of the
Proprietors of the Nantucket
Atheneum was held Thursday
evening, January 10, 1974. Mr.
George W. Jones presided over
the meeting in the absence of
vice—president Henry B.
Coleman.

At the beginning of the meeting
a memorial was presented to the
late president, Charles Gerald
Snow, and also to. Miss Grace
Brown Gardner and Harold H.
Kynett, both of whom had been
loyal and generous members of
the Atheneum. Miss Gardner had
served as secretary for many
years and Mr. Kynett had
presented the Kynett Memorial
wing to the Atheneum in memory
of his late wife, Mrs. Starr
Kynett.

The reports of the secretary
and of the librarian were
presented and approved, with
appreciation, by Miss Florence
Worth and Miss Barbara An-
drews respectively.

' The report of the nominating

committee, of which J. Clinton .

Andrews was chairman,
presented the names of Albert G.
Brock and Mrs. Frances Elder as
the new members of the Board of
Trustees. They were unimously
voted by the Proprietors present.

Following the Proprietors’
meeting the Trustees of the

Atheneum met for their annual
meeting, with Mr. Jones
presiding.

The nominating committee
presented the following officers

for the ensuing year: Henry B. |

Coleman, president; Mrs.
R.A.Orleans, secretary; Miss
Marjorie Barrett, treasurer and
Miss Florence Worth, secretary.
The officers as presented by the
committee were duly elected.

The present Board of Trustees
of the Nantucket Atheneum
consists of the following: Mrs.
Robert D. Congdon, elected in
1971; Mrs. Allen Congdon, Rev.
Bradford Johnson, George W.
jones and Mrs. O. Tupancy,
elected in 1972; Mrs. C. Clark
Coffin, Mrs. Lewis S. Edgarton,
Norman P. Giffin, Mrs. Paul
Klingelfuss, and Mrs. Richard P.
Swain, elected in 1973, Albert G.
Brock and Mrs. Paul Elder,
elected in 1974, with the officers:
Henry B. Coleman, Mrs.
R.A.Orleans, Miss Marjorie
Barrett, and Miss Florence
Worth.

The report of the librarian,
Miss Barbara Andrews, will be
presented in these columns next
week.

Captain Owen Spooner — originator of the navigational I
Longitude. (Painted by James Walter Folger, gift of Grace

A number of valuable acquisitions have been
museum’s collections during the year. Miss Grace Br
with her usual thoughtfulness, has made it possible
ciation to obtain the portrait of her grandfather, Captain William
the James

Gardner on his voyages;

B. Gardner, master of whaling and merchant vessels:
Walter Folger painting of Captain Owen Spooner; the
lacquered sewing box and spool holder owned by her grand-
mother, Mrs. Charlotte Coffin Gardner, who accompanied Captain
several chairs of antique value; a collec-
tion of 156 books, including a number of volumes about Nantucket
history, and some genealogical material, not the least of which
is a partial diary kept by her father, Arthur Gardner, editor.

author and historian, and town official.

Proprietors of Atheneum
Held Annual Meeting

The annual meeting of the
Proprietors of the Nantucket
Atheneum was held Thursday
evening, January 10, 1974. Mr.
George W. Jones presided over
the meeting in the absence of
vice—president Henry B.
Coleman.

At the beginning of the meeting
a memorial was presented to the
late president, Charles Gerald

Kynett, both of whom had been
loyal and generous members of
the Atheneum. Miss Gardner had
served as secretary for many
years and Mr. Kynett had
presented the Kynett Memorial
wing to the Atheneum in memory
of his late wife, Mrs. Starr
Kynett.

The reports of the secretary
and of the librarian were
presented and approved, with
appreciation, by Miss Florence
Worth and Miss Barbara An-
drews respectively.

The report of the nominating
committee, of which J. Clinton
Andrews was chairman,
presented the names of Albert G.
Brock and Mrs. Frances Elder as
the new members of the Board of
Trustees. They were unimously
voted by the Proprietors present.

Following the Proprietors’
meeting the Trustees of the

Atheneum met for their annual
meeting, with Mr. Jones
presiding.

The nominating committee
presented the following officers
for the ensuing year: Henry B.
Coleman, president; Mrs.
R.A.Orleans, secretary; Miss
Marjorie Barrett, treasurer and
Miss Florence Worth, secretary.
The officers as presented by the
committee were duly elected.

The present Board of Trustees
of the Nantucket Atheneum
consists of the following: Mrs.
Robert D. Congdon, elected in
1971; Mrs. Allen Congdon, Rev.
Bradford Johnson, George W.
jones and Mrs. O. Tupancy,
elected in 1972; Mrs. C. Clark
Coffin, Mrs. Lewis S. Edgarton,
Norman P. Giffin, Mrs. Paul
Klingelfuss, and Mrs. Richard P.
Swain, elected in 1973, Albert G.
Brock and Mrs. Paul Elder,
elected in 1974, with the officers:
Henry B. Coleman, Mrs.
R.A.Orleans, Miss Marjorie
Barrett, and Miss Florence
Worth.

The report of the librarian,
Miss Barbara Andrews, will be
presented in these columns next
week.

NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION

HISTORICAL MUSEUM, Fair Street

FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, Fair Strect OLD MILL, Mill Hill

WHALING MUSEUM, Broad Street OLD JAIL, Vestal Street

OLDEST HOUSE, Sunset Hijj) 1800 HOUSE, Mill Street

bereavement.

pais dratgort Kaur Gtao.

Saddened by her passing

To the Editor;

After saddened by the passing
of Grace Brown Gardner, I was
happy to read the comprehensive
and well written piece about her
appearing in the Inquirer and
Mirror issue of December 27th.

She lived not only to a full age
but she lived fully. She was
totally interested in all the things
of this world, and of the Island
above all. Her mind was active;
she gave her opinions well and
reasoned and asked and listened
to others.

I was interested in your ac-
count of her scrapbooks, they
were indeed voluminous, and so:
beautifully arranged.

Some years ago, when I asked
Gordon Turner where I might
procure some background on a
particular Nantucket subject, he
said immediately, ‘‘See Grace
Brown Gardner.”

An unknown to her, she

received me -graciously, and -

made available to me the
splendid editorial she had on the
subject I ws interested in. I look
back with fondness on the many
visits my wife and I had with her
at her 33 Milk Street home.

Nantucket has had many
illustrious persons- and so many
of them have been women.

Sincerely,
Charles F.Smith

jalease accept our sincere sympathy in your

CBD ands yn. ig Gg |

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President, Nantucket Cottage Hospital (/

Annual Meeting of the Prospect Hill Cemetery

Association will be held Wednesday, April 24th
at 3 P.M. at the Unitarian Church.

Edith T. Anderson
Secretary-Treasurer

Please accept our siticere sympathy

Bre Ver YN.

President, Nantucket Cottage

bereaventert.

nic Margit Band bias.

ee Sera

Saddened by her passing «= PERSO RSE OOCOSoS

To the Editor; A Oo |

Annual Meeting of
Association will be
at 3 P.M. at the Unit

After saddened by the passing
of Grace Brown Gardner, I was
happy to read the comprehensive
and well written piece about her
appearing in the Inquirer and
Mirror issue of December 27th.
. She lived not only to a full age
{ but she lived fully. She was SS eS
totally interested in all the things
of this world, and of the Island
above all. Her mind was active;
she gave her opinions well and
reasoned and asked and listened
to others.

I was interested in your ac-
count of her scrapbooks, they
were indeed voluminous, and so:
beautifully arranged.

Some years ago, when I asked
Gordon Turner where I might
procure some background on a
particular Nantucket subject, he
said immediately, ‘See Grace
Brown Gardner.”

An unknown to her, she
received me graciously, and -
made available to me the
splendid editorial she had on the
subject I ws interested in. I look !
back: with fondness on the many
visits my wife and I had with her
at her 33 Milk Street home.
\ Nantucket has had many
itiustrious persons- and so many
of them have been women.
Sincerely,
Charles F.Smith

THE NANTUCKET ATHENEUM
BARBARA P. ANDREWS, LIBRARIAN
NANTUCKET, MASSACHUSETTS 02554

June 1, 1973

Dear Miss Gardner:

With Miss Powell's help, Janice Williams and I selected some of
your books for use at the Atheneum, and I want to tell you how much we
appreciate having the books. The Trustees of the Atheneum thank you very
much for the gift,

We have the file of clippings that you had made from the Nantucket
newspapers. This is a very valuable source of information about Nantucketers
and I am sure will be used a great deal. We'll mount them of paper, or put them
in scrapbooks, as you did with the other clippings. We are very grateful for all
the work you have done over the years to make the informtion accessible.

Sincerely yours,

3 4 > | >
Deru harn i. C. aLALM9

Barbara P. Andrews, Librarian

— ar ww wm ow ae

Eh nbbnoden 7
-Letterbag--
gutter would work out or a street
could be blocked off in sum-
mertime for cyclists - going both
ways in and out of Town. This
would be a burden to car owners
who live on that street. The street
entrances would be blocked off
with a gate for cars, requiring each
family and guest to have a key for
entry.

Sincerely,
Mrs. Anna L.B. Hall

Grace Brown Gardner bequests
To the Editor:

Six years ago, in December, my
cousin Grace Brown Gardner
passed on. A very fitting obituary.
appeared in The Inquirer and
Mirror.

She had generously donated the
mounted and named collection of
the native flora and fauna of
Nantucket to the Maria Mitchell
Library. Also a large collection of
her scrap books of Nantucket
Houses to (I believe) the
Atheneum.

Prior to her passing a large |

collection of Nantucket books and

manyyp ieces of antique furniture
were also donated. Now at the
closing of her estate over $23,000
was bequeathed to each of the
following: The Nantucket
Historical Association, The
Atheneum, and the Nantucket
Cottage Hospital.

It would seem appropriate to me
that mention of these most
generous gifts should be made
known in your newspaper. Do you
agree?

Sincerely,
Gertrude A. Pratt

Fi ek

Funeral services were held at

\. © two-thirty o’clock Wednesday

afternoon at St. Paul’s Chapel
for Miss Grace Brown Gardner,
beloved Nantucket historian,
who died early last Saturday
morning, December 22. The
Reverend Herbert S. Stevens
officiated at the service and at
the graveside service in Prospect
Hill Cemetery, where Miss
Gardner was laid to rest in the
family lot. Miss Gardner had
been in failing health for a
number of years and had been a
patient at the Nantucket Cottage
Hospital since April of 1969.
Miss Gardner was born in
Nantucket on February 27,
1880, the daughter of Arthur H.
Gardner and Mary Macy Brown
Gardner. Both of her parents
were ardent students of
genealogy. Her father was a
newspaperman, had been Tax
Collector for Nantucket for
nearly 20 years, and had served
as Representative to the General
Court of Nantucket for a period
of seven years. When Mr.
Gardner died, his wife took over
as Tax Collector and, in 1924,
achieved the distinction of
having collected every penny of
the taxes owed the town in her
first term as the island’s first
woman Tax Collector. In
addition to his other interests
Arthur H. Gardner served as
president of the Nantucket
Historical Association and his
wife as treasurer for many years.
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Grace Brown Gardner grew up

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interest was in’ Nantucket - its
history, its finances, and its
politics. Her education was a
broad one and her early
schooling had an effect on her
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Mass., during the years her
father was in the Legislature.
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1901 from Bridgewater Normal
School. After a few years of
teaching, she went to Cornell
University where she obtained
her Bachelor of Arts degree in
botany in 1914. The following

year she was awarded her
Masters degree at Brown
University.

She had throughout her life a
deep interest in young people
and instituted several courses to
teach science to boys and girls in
the elementary grades. Her first
teaching practice was in the old
Siaconset School while she was
still a student at Bridgewater
and she had to return home for a
brief time because of an illness
of her father. She assisted her
father in the newspaper business
at that time and there began her
hobby which followed her
throughout her life as long as
she was physically able -- the
collection of all the material she
could obtain concerning
Nantucket. Her scrapbooks,
over which she spent thousands
of hours, covered all subjects
pertaining to the island of her
birth -- houses, people,
churches, stores, whaling, the
various Nantucket
organizations, lightships and
lighthouses, the island steamers
-- in fact, anything and
everything. It was back in these
early years that she began these
collections, spending long winter
hours with scissors and paste,
making the fabulous scrapbooks
which have become a legend and

provided invaluable research
material for hundreds of
students and historians who

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When she returned to the
mainland, following her
graduation from Bridgewater,
Miss Gardner taught for
thirteen years in New Bedford
schools, afterwards going to Fall
River where she taught for three
years in the B. M. C. Durfee
High School. In 1918 she went to
Framingham Normal School as
a teacher in the science
department. For the next
twenty-three years she taught
botany and related sciences to*
hundreds of students at
Framingham. An eager interest
in all plant and bird life which
spurred her on to unique
methods of teaching her
students in the field as well in
the classroom stimulated an
enthusiasm among __ those
students taking her courses that,
in later years, brought many of
them to Nantucket to visit her
summer after summer.

In 1942 Grace Brown Gardner
returned to Nantucket to make
her home at the old family home
at the corner of Milk Street and
Quaker Road. She was proud of
her home which was one of only
four of the older houses that
remained in the ownership of the
direct descendants of the
original builders. Her
membership in the Nantucket
Historical Association had been
a natural one, following along in
her parents’ footsteps, and it was
not surprising that she was
immediately elected to the
Council of the Association. She
was appointed a Vice President
in 1946 and held that office as
long as her health permitted her
-- in her own estimation -- to be
of service to the Association. In
1970 she asked to be allowed to
retire. At that time she was
made an Honorary Vice
President. Her advice and
counsel over the years were of
tremendous help to all the

officers and staff of the
Assocjation.
Miss Gardner also had a

strong interest in the Maria
Mitchell Association because of
her work in the field of botany

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and bird life. One of her major
gifts to the Maria Mitchell was
an herbarium which represented
many months of careful and

loving onstruction and planning:

to secure the the ‘‘just right’
plants for inclusion. Here again
her advice and interest helped to
smooth out many problems for
the younger instructors and
directors in the Natural Science
Department of this Association,
of which she was recently made
an Honorary Member.

She was a Proprietor of the
Nantucket Atheneum and
served as a Trustee, as well as
acting as Secretary for many
years. Among her other activities
she took and active part in the
Historical Association’s annual
““Gams,”’ adding interesting
anecdotes and stories from her
vast background of island facts
and legends. She also served for
a while as a hostess at The 1800
House. She contributed to the
columns of The Inquirer and
Mirror in many ways over the
years, but particularly she was

noted for her series. of
biographies entitled ‘‘Fifty
Famous Nantucketers’. That

series is now a collector’s item.
She was a member of St.
Paul’s Church in Nantucket. She
was extremely proud of her
Nantucket background, which
she traced back to the original
Tristram Coffin. A quiet,
friendly person, she never sought
any attention for herself or any
thanks or monetary
compensation for the hours of
work she spent assisting those
who visited her seeking help.
Even after she became a patient
at the hospital she continued, as
long as her eyesight permitted,
to pore over her scrapbooks and
diaries and enjoyed reading and
re-reading her favorite books on
islands history and legends.
The scrapbooks were given by
Miss Gardner several years ago
to the Nantucket Historical
Association. They are kept in the
air-conditioned vault in the
Whaling Museum but they have
all been put on microfilm and
are available at both the
Historical Association and the

{ Nantucket Atheneum.

Her only survivors are her
cousins, Mrs. Arthur E. Pratt, of
Bridgewater, Mass., and Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas Hubbard, of
St. Micahel’s, Md.

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In Nantucket, December 22)

1973, Miss Grace Brown
Gardner, aged. 93 years, :
months, 27 days. Funera

services were held Wednesday
afternoon, followed by interment
‘in Prospect Hill Cemetery. _

Commonwealth
of Massachusetts
Nantucket, ss
PROBATE COURT

To all persons interested in
the estate of Grace Brown
Gardner aka Grace B. Gard-
ner late of Nantucket in said
County deceased.

A petition has been
presented to said Court for
probate of a certain in-
strument purporting to be the
last will of said deceased by
Pacific National Bank of
Nantucket in the County of
Nantucket praying that it be
appointed executor thereof
without giving a surety on its
bond.

If you desire to object
thereto you or your attorney
should file a written ap-
pearance in said Court at
Nantucket before nine o’clock
in the forenoon on the four-
teenth day of February 1974,
the return day of this citation.

Witness, Jeremiah J.
Sullivan, Esquire, Judge of
said Court, this seventh day of
January 1974.

Irene M. Smith, Register

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Addition to obituary

Inour account of the death of Miss
Grace Brown Gardner, printed in
last week’s edition of The Inquirer

and Mirror, several survivors of,

Miss Gardner were inadvertently
ommitted. In addition of Mrs.
Arthur E. Pratt, of Bridgewater,
Mass., and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas

Hubbard, of St. Michael’s Md.,

other cousins are Mrs. Joseph
Kennedy (ALice Mary Brown), of
Orlando, Fla.; Mrs. Mary Brown,
of Natick, Mass., Gardner and
Arthur Pratt and Ralph W. Porter,

of Bridgewater, Mass.

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